India, July 31 -- Coding fluency still matters, but it no longer defines engineering readiness. Agentic AI now demands engineers who can design intelligent systems that reason, plan, use tools, coordinate workflows, and operate safely under human supervision. Unlike chatbots that mainly respond to prompts, AI agents can take a goal, break it into steps, retrieve information, test outputs, monitor progress, and improve their approach. They may inspect code, suggest fixes, run tests, summarize documents, route requests, and escalate exceptions. The engineer's role is shifting from writing every instruction to supervising the larger system.

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