Karpathy has spoken, enlightened AI-driven engineering is called "Agentic Engineering."
- Karpathy has spoken, enlightened AI-driven engineering is called "Agentic Engineering."
- Vibecoding was being applied too broadly.
- Vibecoding is about writing code you wouldn't have bothered to write before: lightly held, possibly throwaway.
- But it's possible to use LLMs to help write code in much more disciplined ways that give compounding advantage, and that is not a flippant or unserious exercise.
- Agentic engineering covers that latter case well.
- One downside: "agentic engineering" doesn't work well as a verb.