Developers Shift Toward Agentic Engineering Practices

Andrej Karpathy recently proposed "agentic engineering" as a more accurate descriptor than "vibe coding," prompting responses from developers, analysts, and companies in a New Stack report. Experts including Forrester analysts and industry CTOs argue that improved multi-agent capabilities, stronger guardrails, and engineered harnesses are shifting professional software development toward disciplined agent orchestration by 2026.