Karpathy: "Agentic Engineering" Replaces "Vibe Coding"

Summary

Andrej Karpathy — who coined "vibe coding" in 2025 — now says the term is passé. In a February 4 post, he proposed "agentic engineering" as the accurate description of where AI-assisted development has landed: "you are not writing the code directly 99% of the time... you are orchestrating agents who do and acting as oversight." The shift reflects a maturity inflection. Where vibe coding captured the excitement of early generative tools, agentic engineering represents a more grounded, profession