Prompt engineering was a useful phase but it’s collapsing under scale. Static prompts rot, sdks and frameworks are updated daily, and model updates shift behavior without warning. In 2026, the winning teams will stop “writing prompts” and start engineering intent: explicit goals, constraints, feedback loops, and evaluation signals that survive changing contexts.

This talk introduces a practical framework for intent engineering across four layers. We’ll cover why intent is the missing abstraction for agentic systems, how it differs from “instructions,” and how to design systems that remain stable when tools, data, and models shift.

This is a practical guidebook walking us through the death of RAG and prompt engineering to true automous human-aligned agents in production.