Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
Interview with Andrej Karpathy (OpenAI co-founder, former Tesla Autopilot) moving from *vibe coding* to *agentic engineering*: December 2025 as the tipping point — "never felt more behind as a programmer" — the Software 1.0/2.0/3.0 taxonomy, the openclaw example (bash script → text to copy-paste into the agent) and MenuGen rendered obsolete by Gemini's Nanobanana, the *verifiability* theory explaining why LLMs are *jagged* (math/code peak, "walk 50m to the car wash" fails), the distinction between *vibe coding* (raise the floor) and *agentic engineering* (preserve the quality bar), the "animals vs ghosts" metaphor, the overhaul of hiring via agent-versus-agent projects, and the key formula: ***"You can outsource your thinking but you can't outsource your understanding."***
Andrej Karpathy (co-fondateur OpenAI, ex-Tesla Autopilot, créateur du terme "vibe coding")