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From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering: Why the Human Is Still the Bottleneck

Karpathy killed "vibe coding" and replaced it with "agentic engineering." But after 65 agent handoffs, we learned the real shift isn't about AI autonomy — it's about what humans do when the agents are running.

From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering: Why the Human Is Still the Bottleneck

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