Andrej Karpathy's 'Skills' Format Takes Over GitHub — Agentic Engineering Vocabulary Gains Traction

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Following Karpathy's reframing of 'vibe coding' to 'agentic engineering' at Sequoia AI Ascent, his proposed 'skills' format for structuring agent instructions is spreading across GitHub. The distinction Karpathy drew is precise: vibe coding is describing what you want and accepting what comes back; agentic engineering is designing the system, specifying constraints, and using AI to accelerate implementation you've already reasoned through. He maintains he hasn't written a line of code since December 2025.