Ensuring your code works when AI testing isn’t enough | BRK208
Professional AI-assisted coding needs a new term—'agentic engineering'—distinct from casual 'vibe coding,' with verification as the core challenge.
“when you fully give into the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists”— Andrej Karpathy
At Microsoft Build, Simon Willison argued that 'vibe coding' was meant for throwaway weekend projects and proposed 'agentic engineering' as the term for professionals shipping real software with AI coding agents. He highlighted how rapidly the practice has spread—many engineers now ship code to production without reading it—making verification patterns the critical emerging discipline. This matters because it reframes AI coding from novelty to professional workflow requiring new rigor.