AI systems
Agents do the wiring, architects carry the tradeoffs
AI agents are arriving faster than most banking career ladders can adapt, and the market is already rewarding people who work with them. The career moat was never wiring up another API call. It is the judgment calls agents cannot own - which rail to trust, how much latency to spend, who the regulator will be.
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