← All IntelClip / EntertainmentVibe coding vs agentic engineering
From Andrej Karpathy on Vibe Coding & Agentic Engineering (AI Ascent 2026) · ≈15:57
“vibe coding is about raising the floor for everyone in terms of what they can do in software”
“agentic engineering is about preserving the quality bar of what existed before in professional software”
“You have these agents which are these like spiky entities, they're a bit fallible, a little bit stochastic, but they are extremely powerful.”
What’s in it
- Distinguishes vibe coding from disciplined agentic engineering
- How to move faster without sacrificing your quality bar
- Framing agents as powerful but fallible, stochastic entities to coordinate
Clip transcript
between the two and what would you actually call what we're in today? Uh yeah, so I would say vibe coding is about raising the floor for everyone in terms of what they can do in software. So, the floor rises, everyone can vibe code anything, and that's amazing, incredible. But then I would say agentic engineering is about preserving the quality bar of what existed before in professional software. So, you're not allowed to introduce uh vulnerabilities due to vibe coding. Um you are um you're still responsible for your software just as before, but can you go faster? And spoiler is you can, but how do you how do you do that properly? And so, to me agentic engineering when I I call it that because I do think it's kind of like an engineering discipline. You have these agents which are these like spiky entities, they're a bit fallible, a little bit stochastic, but they are extremely powerful. And it's how do you how do you coordinate them to go faster without sacrificing your quality bar? And doing that well and correctly um is
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