Vibe Coding Is Dead — Karpathy Just Introduced 'Agentic Engineering' at Sequoia AI Ascent

Andrej Karpathy officially retired the term 'vibe coding' at Sequoia's AI Ascent conference today. He introduced its successor: 'Agentic Engineering.' This isn't a rebrand. It's a fundamental reclassification of what AI-native software development has become — and what it demands of practitioners. If you've been building with Claude Code, Cursor, or any autonomous agent tooling, you are already doing Agentic Engineering. Now you need to understand what that means.