From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering: The New Role of Software Engineers

The software industry has gone through several dramatic transitions over the past two decades. We moved from manual deployments to DevOps, from monoliths to microservices, and from scripted automation to AI-assisted development. Now another shift is happening — one that changes not only how we write software, but how we think about engineering itself. The rise of AI coding assistants and autonomous agents has introduced two distinct development styles: Vibe coding Agentic engineering At firs...