Andrej Karpathy probably didn’t set out to retire “vibe coding” just a year after popularizing it, but time and technological advancement forced his hand. The developer community is at a crossroads — clinging to a label while navigating a landscape that has evolved beyond it.
Karpathy recently suggested “agentic engineering” as a more accurate description of where AI-assisted development has landed. A collection of tech industry voices responds here to Karpathy’s reframing of “vibe coding” as “agentic engineering.”
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