It has been a big swing from monoliths to microservices when containers and k8s made certain orchestration easier. It followed by event driven architectures. Cost came into the picture and pulled back to monoliths with some influencer winds.
We started with prompt engineering and mega prompts. Realised that the context is king and added RAG to the mix. Now the prompts need distributed inference and here we agents. Cost and specifically latency will come into the picture soon. It will be the influencers turn to pull back to RAG and mega prompts.
It will not rest. Big engineering teams will pull to the right, rightly so to prove Conway’s Law. Small teams will realise their place is gravitationally to the left. (No political pun intended).
Let’s see who will get to the point of getting bored with swings and instead prefer slides and sand pits (boring tech paying the salaries)
Mahmut Canga 
What do you think?