The guy who coined 'vibe-coding' says the next big thing is 'agentic engineering'
OpenAI founder Andrej Karpathy commemorated the first anniversary of coining vibe-coding by unveiling a new term. San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images/Contributor/Getty Images Vibe-coding has reached a new level, Andrej Karpathy says. Prompting AI to write code has revolutionized the tech industry. Now, the OpenAI founder says "agentic engineering" is the next big thing. "Vibe-coding" just celebrated its first birthday. That's a lifetime in the AI boom. Now, the man who coined the term is celebrating the birth of a new one: "agentic engineering." While vibe-coding is when humans prompt AI to write code, OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy says agentic engineering is when AI agents write the code themselves. "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,'" he wrote in a recent X post. Karpathy ...