‘Vibe Coding’ Inventor Andrej Karpathy Has a New Term for A.I. Engineering
Andrej Karpathy introduces “agentic engineering,” arguing that directing A.I. agents now defines modern software development. Photo by Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
Last February, OpenAI co-founder and Tesla Autopilot’s founding engineer, Andrej Karpathy, accidentally coined a now-ubiquitous term when he tweeted about “vibe coding.” The phrase described a form of A.I.-aided coding that lowered the barrier to entry for software engineering and soon took both hobbyists and Silicon Valley by storm. To celebrate the one-year anniversary of that viral moment, Karpathy has introduced a new, albeit less snappy, phrase: “agentic engineering.”
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