For about thirty years, the default assumption in software has been that the person who writes the code owns the behavior. Skills break that assumption. And most people - including most developers - haven't clocked it yet.
we keep ✳ baking new terms for the same restless question: how do you make agents actually work? 'Vibe coding' gave way to 'context engineering' which gave way to 'harness engineering' — each one a correction for what the last one missed.
What Are Reverse-Cognition Engineers And Why They Are Going to Become the Highest-Leverage Builders of the Next Decade
What are reverse-cognition engineers and why they are going to become the highest-leverage builders of the next decade. The engineer specifies invariants, interfaces, data flows, evaluation criteria. The AI instantiates them.
Your RAG fails not because the embeddings are wrong or because your retrieval needs more tuning. It fails because the boundaries of your system have drifted so far from the operational reality that the agent no longer knows what it is responsible for.