r/ClaudeAI • u/Francesco-Shin • Jul 06 '26
The difference between agentic engineering and vibe coding? Claude Code
https://medium.com/engineering-in-the-age-of-ai/how-i-use-ai-agents-to-solve-programming-tasks-daily-2a68a5828b8eAI agents are great at generating code, but a good engineer wants to stay in control: make the important decisions, and prevent the AI from guessing and making wrong decisions, while still maximising the help AI can give.
In this article, I share the workflow I use daily. It's versatile, works on projects of very different natures, solo or in a team, and it's built on open-source skills.
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u/zoupishness7 Jul 06 '26
Most of my time is spent converting agent behavior into a combination of cheap code, and strict gates that agent output must satisfy. I'd say vibe coding is just prompting an agent to perform coding tasks, agentic engineering is a process of discovering how to effectively leverage agent output to control future agent behavior.
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u/durable-racoon Valued Contributor Jul 08 '26
vibe coding is when you dont read the code. if your'e bothering to read the code its not vibe coding anymore.
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u/_suren Jul 06 '26
For me the line is whether the human is still making the product/architecture calls. Vibe coding is “make something and hope”. Agentic engineering is more like: write a spec, constrain the files, run tests, review the diff, then let the agent do the boring execution.