Vibe Coding Is Dead: The Rise of Agentic Engineering

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The Three-Panel FrameworkPanel 1: Vibe CodingYou → Prompt → Model → CodeFast to startFeeling over structureGood for prototypes"You ask the model to solve the problem directly"Panel 2: What ChangedStronger models are not the whole answerThe new bottleneck is context, rules, and reviewEngineer writes spec → Sets rules → Lets agents work → Reviews output"You code less. You steer the system more."Panel 3: Agentic EngineeringAgents build. The human orchestrates.Bring together: spec, goal, constraints, history, data, rules, tools, tests"More scalable. More repeatable. Better results."Key Quotes"Many people have tried to come up with a better name for this to differentiate it from vibe coding. Personally, my current favorite is 'agentic engineering.'" — Andrej Karpathy"The goal is to claim the leverage from the use of agents but without any compromise on the quality of the software." — Andrej Karpathy"I think by the end of the year, everyone is going to be a product manager, and everyone codes. The title software engineer is going to start to go away." — Boris Cherny"You can outsource your thinking but you can't outsource your understanding." — Tweet Karpathy thinks about every other day Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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