Friday, February 13, 2026

AI "Agentic Engineering"

The guy who coined 'vibe-coding' says the next big thing is 'agentic engineering'



Andrej Karpathy, who last year this time popularized the term “vibe coding,” 
...1 year later, programming via LLM agents is increasingly becoming a default workflow for professionals, except with more oversight and scrutiny,”

"The goal is to claim the leverage from the use of agents but without any compromise on the quality of the software.”

“Personally, my current favorite [is] ‘agentic engineering’: ‘agentic’ because the new default is that you are not writing the code directly 99% of the time, you are orchestrating agents who do and acting as oversight — ‘engineering’ to emphasize that there is an art & science and expertise to it,”