Ideas on AI Agent Jobs?
I did my PhD in recommendation algorithms and joined the recommendation algorithms team at a tech company. But just two months later, I was transferred to the agentic AI team because it is a trending topic and all the companies here are pouring resources into it.
About a month into the new role, I realized my team wasn’t fine-tuning models at all. Instead, we were mainly building agent workflows. My mentor told me they used to fine-tune foundation models with RL for downstream business tasks, but they stopped because today’s foundation models are already good enough for most use cases, and fine-tuning is expensive.
As a result, most of my work revolves around writing prompts/skills and building workflow for AI agents
Should I be concerned that my work is too simple and offers limited opportunities for technical growth?