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6 skills every engineer needs for the AI era

posted Originally published at www.figma.com 1 min read

Software engineers need to develop six key skills to thrive in the AI era: using AI for problem exploration beyond automation, vibe coding to discover better solutions, leveraging agentic capabilities like Model Context Protocol for improved outputs, auditing pull requests with LLMs, managing teams of AI agents by breaking down

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Really insightful post, I appreciate how you broke down the evolving skills needed for software engineers in the AI era. It’s interesting to see the focus shifting from just coding to managing and collaborating with AI systems. Which of these skills do you think will be the hardest for engineers to adapt to in real-world projects?

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