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7. Karpathy: "Agentic Engineering" Replaces "Vibe Coding" as the New Paradigm
Karpathy declares his own "vibe coding" term is now passe, replaced by "agentic engineering" — the discipline of designing systems where AI agents plan, write, test, and ship code under structured human oversight. The key shift: developers don't write code 99% of the time, they orchestrate agents and act as oversight. "Engineering" is deliberate — it emphasizes there's an art, science, and expertise to it. What was a weekend project last fall is now "a single prompt, let the agent work alone for
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