At the NDTV Ind.AI Summit, Mukund Jha, CEO of Emergent Labs, spoke about how the role of a CTO is evolving in the age of agentic AI. Responding to a question about whether technology leaders must adapt to the rise of prompt engineering and AI-driven development, Jha said CTOs are moving back toward deeper technical involvement. Rather than functioning primarily as managers, modern CTOs must now make core architectural decisions and stay closely engaged with emerging technologies.