New Delhi, June 26 -- If artificial intelligence is creating new technology at breakneck speed, it is also creating a new vocabulary just as quickly. Terms such as "prompt engineering" entered the mainstream a couple of years back, while newer phrases like "loop engineering" and "forward deployed engineer" are beginning to appear across job listings, startup pitches and industry conversations.

Are these terms reflecting genuine shifts in how AI systems are being built and deployed? What exactly do these new roles and concepts mean, and why are they attracting so much attention?

Anthropic PBC co-founder and Claude Code creator Boris Cherny, who had previously proclaimed that "software engineering is dead", now asserts that the era of man...