Vibe Coding Is Dead: The Rise of Agentic Engineering

About this episode

The episode discusses the transition from vibe coding to agentic engineering in software development.

The Three-Panel Framework Panel 1: Vibe Coding You → Prompt → Model → Code Fast to start Feeling over structure Good for prototypes "You ask the model to solve the problem directly" Panel 2: What Changed Stronger models are not the whole answer The new bottleneck is context, rules, and review Engineer writes spec → Sets rules → Lets agents work → Reviews output "You code less. You steer the system more." Panel 3: Agentic Engineering Agents build. The human orchestrates. Bring together: spec, goal, constraints, history, data, rules, tools, tests "More scalable. More repeatable. Better results." Key Quotes "Many people have tried to come up with a better name for this to differentiate it from vibe coding. Personally, my current favorite is 'agentic engineering.'" — Andrej Karpathy "The goal is to claim the leverage from the use of agents but without any compromise on the quality of the software." — Andrej Karpathy "I think by the end of the year, everyone is going to be a product manager, and everyone codes. The title software engineer is going to start to go away." — Boris Cherny "You can outsource your thinking but you can't outsource your understanding." — Tweet Karpathy thinks…

People in this episode

Host: Danar Mustafa

Topics covered

• agentic engineering
• vibe coding
• software development
• AI models
• product management

Keywords

• vibe coding
• agentic engineering
• AI
• software engineering
• product management

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