Andrej Karpathy proposes agentic engineering on X

Proposed agentic engineering on X — wrote that the new default is not to write code directly 99% of the time but to orchestrate agents and act as a supervisor, and that the goal is to take the leverage of agents without compromising software quality at all

Why it matters

He himself puts forward a successor term to vibe coding, moving the discourse from giving up on quality to responsibility for supervision

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Pressthenewstack.iohttps://thenewstack.io/vibe-coding-is-passe/

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