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,” 

Prime numbers in 100+ prog. languages

Fastest programming language: C++ vs Rust vs Zig | Dave Plummer and Lex Fridman - YouTube

 PlummersSoftwareLLC/Primes: Prime number projects in 100+ programming languages, to compare their speed - and their programmer's cleverness @GitHub



AI GUI "robot" automation (Windows, Mac, web...)

CursorTouch/Windows-Use: 🖥️Open-source Computer-USE for Windows @GitHub

Windows-Use is a powerful automation agent that interact directly with the Windows at GUI layer. It bridges the gap between AI Agents and the Windows OS to perform tasks such as opening apps, clicking buttons, typing, executing shell commands, and capturing UI state all without relying on traditional computer vision models. Enabling any LLM to perform computer automation instead of relying on specific models for it.

python, MIT license





A cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings.
Used to programmatically control the mouse & keyboard.


pywinauto is a set of python modules to automate the Microsoft Windows GUI. At its simplest it allows you to send mouse and keyboard actions to windows dialogs and controls, but it has support for more complex actions like getting text data.

Supported technologies under the hood: Win32 API (backend="win32"; used by default), MS UI Automation (backend="uia"). User input emulation modules mouse and keyboard work on both Windows and Linux.



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pip install pyautogui
pip install pygetwindow
pip install pyperclip
python notepad_hello.py

import pyautogui
import pyperclip
import subprocess
import time
import pygetwindow as gw

subprocess.Popen('notepad.exe')
time.sleep(1)

# Focus Notepad
notepad = gw.getWindowsWithTitle('Untitled - Notepad')[0]
notepad.activate()
time.sleep(0.3)

pyautogui.typewrite('hello', interval=0.05)

pyautogui.hotkey('ctrl', 's')
time.sleep(0.5)

# Use clipboard for the path
pyperclip.copy(r'c:\tmp\hello.txt') # r' to use \ without escaping it
pyautogui.hotkey('ctrl', 'v')
time.sleep(0.2)

pyautogui.press('enter')


here are the main alternatives:

pynput - Lower-level, better for listeners

from pynput.keyboard import Key, Controller
keyboard = Controller()
keyboard.type('hello')
keyboard.press(Key.ctrl)
keyboard.press('s')
keyboard.release('s')
keyboard.release(Key.ctrl)

Good for: keyboard/mouse listeners, hotkey detection, background monitoring.

keyboard - Simpler API, supports hotkeys

import keyboard
keyboard.write('hello')
keyboard.press_and_release('ctrl+s')
keyboard.add_hotkey('ctrl+shift+q', lambda: print('triggered'))

Good for: hotkey registration, simpler syntax, recording/playback.

mouse - Companion to keyboard library

import mouse
mouse.click('left')
mouse.move(100, 200)

pywinauto - Best for Windows GUI automation

from pywinauto import Application
app = Application().start('notepad.exe')
app.UntitledNotepad.Edit.type_keys('hello')
app.UntitledNotepad.menu_select('File->Save As')

Good for: interacting with Windows controls directly (buttons, menus, dialogs) without coordinates. Much more robust.

autoit (via pyautoit) - Windows classic

import autoit
autoit.run('notepad.exe')
autoit.win_wait_active('Untitled - Notepad')
autoit.send('hello')

recommendation:

Use caseBest choice
Windows app automationpywinauto
Cross-platform, simplepyautogui
Hotkey listenerskeyboard / pynput
Robust Windows scriptingpywinauto or autoit

For your Notepad example, pywinauto would be more reliable since it targets controls directly rather than screen coordinates.