GitHub just quietly released a new role-based certification, and it's one of the highest-signal documents I've seen for where our jobs are headed. The 'GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Developer' exam is a spec sheet for the skills required to build and ship AI agents in production. It confirms the shift we've all felt: moving from prompt-level hacking to designing, supervising, and operating complex, stateful systems. from prompt engineering to system integration The skills listed for the new GH-600 exam are not about crafting the perfect prompt. They are about system-level concerns. The exam covers how to "configure tools, permissions, and environments for agents." This is the language of infrastructure and operations, not just conversational design. It signals that the core work is no longer just coaxing a model to produce a good output, but integrating it safely and reliably into a larger software development lifecycle. Building a real agent requires you to think about its environment.…