A distinction is drawn between vibe coding and agentic engineering: both use AI tools, but they differ in discipline. Vibe coding skips formal specs and deep review, making it fast and suitable for prototypes and throwaway scripts. Agentic engineering keeps both spec and review, adds guardrails, tests, and CI gates, making it appropriate for production code touching customers, money, or data. The key skill for teams is matching the level of ceremony to the risk of the work, making the chosen mode explicit at the start, and placing a deliberate gate before any prototype moves to production.
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Same tool, different disciplineMatch the ceremony to the riskMake the mode explicit8.3K Impressions