What is agentic engineering?
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What is agentic engineering?
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#2The halo effect in action.
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#3Staring at your phone while waiting for your agent to prompt you again. Code monkey might actually be real this time
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#4I think we all know what Agentic engineering is, the question is when should it not be used instead of classical engineering?
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#5the practice of developing software with the assistance of coding agents.
Spot on.
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#6How is this different than Prompt Engineering?
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#7How is this different than Prompt Engineering?
"Prompt" was derogatory /s
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#8I don't think we should be making this distinction. We're still engaged in software engineering. This isn't a new discipline, it's a new technique. We're still using testing, requirements gathering, etc. to ensure we've produced the correct product and that the product is correct. Just with more automation.
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#9Agentic engineering is working from documentation -> code and automating the translation process via agents. This is distinct from the waterfall process which describes the program, but not the code itself, and waterfall documentation cannot be translated directly to code. Agent plans and session have way more context and details that are not captured in waterfall due to differences in scope.
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#10How is this different than Prompt Engineering?
Prompt engineering was coined before tooling like Claude Code existed, when everyone copied and pasted from chatgpt to their editor and back.
Agentic coding highlights letting the model directly code on your codebase. I guess its the next level forward.
I keep seeing agentic engineering more even in job postings, so I think this will be the terminology used to describe someone building software whilst letting an AI model output the code. Its not to be confused with vibe coding which is possible with coding agents.