Stack Overflow: the industry is moving from 'vibe coding' prototypes to agentic engineering

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Stack Overflow's podcast, recorded live at Snowflake Summit with Head of Developer Experience Umesh Unnikrishnan, argues the shift underway is from vibe coding for throwaway prototypes to agentic engineering practices for production systems. The distinction they draw is process discipline: agentic engineering requires the verification, review, and rollback scaffolding that vibe coding deliberately skips. It's a useful vocabulary marker for a transition many teams are living through without a name for it.