Simon Willison writes vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer

Posted Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like on his blog — confessed that as coding agents become trustworthy, even he no longer reviews code line by line, so the boundary between the two approaches is blurring

Why it matters

The key chronicler of vibe coding's spread declared that the very distinction between the two axes of 2026 coding discourse is breaking down

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Officialsimonwillison.nethttps://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/

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