AI dictionary

Agentic Engineering

Seasoned engineers accelerating their work with LLMs while staying accountable for the software they produce - the disciplined counterpart to vibe coding.

Plain English

Same tools as vibe coding, opposite professionalism: the engineer owns the architecture and the merge, the agent drafts.

Example

An engineer runs three agent sessions on separate branches, reviews each diff, promotes one to a PR, and iterates - personally responsible for what ships.

Why it matters

It names the actual senior job with agents - parallel work streams, review, verification - and sets the accountability line teams are hiring for.