Especially odd for someone working in IT. If I'd only learn what doesn't change in a few years I'd have to find new work.

You misunderstood, there's no point learning it until it works. Don't bother until it's stable, picking up agentic coding will be trivial, because it has to be trivial to work well.

To get agentic coding working 9 months ago you were massaging context, 6 months ago you'd be hooking up MCP servers, 3 months ago you'd be writing a gazillion .claude files.

But all of that is utterly useless knowledge. That's not a transferrable skill.

Using AI is much more effective if you write the code yourself, using AI as a supercharged Stack Overflow.

A programmer + AI supercharged SO > A programmer + agentic coding

So stop wasting your time learning how to get agentic coding working today, especially as the method keeps changing. There's no point learning the voodoo and rain-dancing of this iteration of today's coding agents. Try them, and until they work, discard them.