Karpathy Retires 'Vibe Coding' — Proposes 'Agentic Engineering' as the Professional Paradigm One Year After Coining the Term

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On the one-year anniversary of his viral 'vibe coding' tweet, Andrej Karpathy declared the term passé and introduced 'agentic engineering' — emphasizing that professionals now orchestrate agent teams under structured oversight rather than casually accepting AI output. The key distinction: agentic engineering requires context architecture (CLAUDE.md, rules files), recursive arguing (Actor/Evaluator agent pairs), and persistent project conventions, transforming what was a casual experiment into a production methodology.