The Death of the 'Prompt Engineer': Why Agentic Workflows are the New Standard For the past two years, "Prompt Engineering" has been the hottest skill in tech. But the era of crafting the perfect 500-word prompt to get an LLM to output valid JSON is coming to an end. We are moving into the age of Agentic Workflows . What is an Agentic Workflow? Instead of treating an LLM as a static chatbot, we treat it as an engine for reasoning. An agentic workflow involves giving the model a goal, a set of tools (functions), and the ability to iterate until the task is complete. The Shift in Strategy Old Way: One massive prompt, hoping for a perfect "zero-shot" result. New Way: Breaking the task into sub-steps, using a loop to self-correct, and utilizing tool-calling to fetch external data.…