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Karpathy Retires "Vibe Coding," Coins "Agentic Engineering" — and the Security Data Proves Why
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The man who coined "vibe coding" a year ago now declares it passe and introduces "agentic engineering" — the discipline of orchestrating AI agents that plan, write, test, and ship code under structured human oversight. The timing isn't accidental. Escape.tech released the largest vibe-coding security study ever: 2,000+ vulnerabilities, 400+ exposed secrets, and 175 PII instances across 5,600+ production vibe-coded apps on Lovable, Base44, Create.xyz, and others. Every vulnerability was in live production. Meanwhile, Meta acquired Moltbook — whose founder proudly "didn't write one line of code" — only for researchers to discover its Supabase credentials were public, exposing 1.5M API keys. The message is clear: vibe coding shipped fast but created an ocean of security debt. The industry now needs engineering discipline, not vibes. The New Stack | Escape.tech
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