Andrej Karpathy probably didn’t set out to retire “vibe coding” just a year after popularizing it, but time and technological advancement forced his hand, writes Darryl K. Taft in today’s lead story. The developer community is at a crossroads — clinging to a label while navigating a landscape that has evolved beyond it.

Karpathy recently suggested “agentic engineering” as a more accurate description of where AI-assisted development has landed. A collection of tech industry voices responds here to Karpathy’s reframing of “vibe coding” as “agentic engineering.”

“I think vibe coding is going to be the term that sticks — the genie is out of the bottle,” Gene Kim, author of the book Vibe Coding and longtime observer of software development culture, tells The New Stack. Kim had his own naming debate with his co-author, Steve Yegge, who had gone back and forth over what to call their book on the subject.

Read more: From vibes to engineering: How AI agents outgrew their own terminology

Here are more stories to set you off into the weekend:

• 96% of developers don’t trust AI code: Here’s a step toward the fix
• The reason big tech is giving away AI agent frameworks
• Want an easy way to manage Podman containers? Here it is.

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