Karpathy has spoken, enlightened AI-driven engineering is called "Agentic Engineering."

· Bits and Bobs 2/9/26
  • 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.

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