Andrej Karpathy says vibe coding is over. Sigh.
He came up with the unfortunately boring name “agentic engineering.” Everyone has been trying to rebrand Vibe Coding for a while. Nothing sticks.
I get the instinct. And honestly today, there’s no “coding” in vibe coding. Vibers are now project managers overseeing agent swarms. The work changed. So change the name, right?
Wrong.
Vibe coding already won the brand game. It’s so sticky and memorable, you probably already forgot what that other name was. Great branding is immediately understood and absorbed. When someone hears “vibe coding,” they know exactly what you mean: prompt, iterate, ship.
“Agentic engineering” sounds like enterprise consulting. “Agent orchestration” sounds like DevOps theater. These names aren’t bad. They’re just forgettable.
The Shift Is Real
Developers are managing swarms now. But that doesn’t mean the term dies. It evolves.
- 2023: Vibe coding = you + Cursor
- 2025: Vibe coding = you + agents + policy gates
- 2026: Vibe coding = you orchestrating 5 agents fixing bugs while you sleep
Same vibe. Bigger scale.
You don’t kill a brand this strong. You ride it. The name stays. The job changes.
What do you think? Can you rebrand something this sticky, or does “vibe coding” just keep evolving?
