1. Working with Agentic AI: Generative AI Software Engineer How Human Skills and Agentic Skills Dynamically Combine Across Generative AI Software Engineering Responsibilities 1.1. Generative AI Software Engineering as Professional Work A generative AI software engineer designs, develops, evaluates, deploys, maintains, and improves software systems that use generative AI models to produce, transform, retrieve, reason over, or interact with information. The work can include building applications around large language models and other generative models, developing retrieval-augmented generation systems, constructing agentic workflows, designing prompts and model interactions, integrating external data and tools, implementing application logic, evaluating generated outputs, and operating generative AI capabilities in production. Generative AI software engineers also build the software infrastructure surrounding models, connect AI components with applications and services, establish testing and observability, investigate failures, optimize quality, latency, reliability, and computational cost, and adapt systems as models and application requirements change. Because application behavior emerges from interactions among models, instructions, retrieved context, tools, software components, data, and users, effective generative AI engineering requires understanding the complete system rather than treating the underlying model as an isolated component. The work consequently combines software engineering, AI and machine learning knowledge, experimentation, systems thinking, data reasoning, evaluation, problem solving, and technical judgment to create generative AI applications that are useful, reliable, scalable, maintainable, and appropriate for their intended purposes. ...