Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit’s High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my …
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Simon Willison discusses his recent podcast appearance about AI coding tools, where he realized that the distinction between "vibe coding" (casual AI-assisted coding without scrutiny) and "agentic engineering" (responsible AI use by professional engineers) has become blurred in his own work. He originally believed vibe coding was acceptable only for personal projects where bugs only affect the developer, but irresponsible for software built for others, while agentic engineering represented a more professional approach with proper constraints and code quality considerations.