From Vibe Coding to Shipping: My Spec-Driven Workflow with Claude Code

On February 2, 2025, Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding" : "fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists." A year later, on February 4, 2026, he retracted it . The new word was "agentic engineering" — because, as he put it, the new default is that you are not writing the code directly 99% of the time. You are orchestrating agents. Twelve months. From a meme to a discipline. Most teams I talk to have not noticed the difference. In between those