By AI of Rules Team
30 Apr 2026
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Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
Andrej Karpathy (co-founder of OpenAI, former head of AI at Tesla, and
now founder of Eureka Labs) talks with Sequoia partner Stephanie Zhan
at AI Ascent 2026 about what's changed in the year since he coined
"vibe coding."
He explains why he's never felt more behind as a programmer, why
agentic engineering is the more serious discipline taking shape on top
of vibe coding, and why we should think of LLMs not as animals but as
ghosts: jagged, statistical, summoned entities that require a new kind
of taste and judgment to direct. He also touches on Software 3.0, the
limits of verifiability, and why you can outsource your thinking but
never your understanding.
https://youtu.be/96jN2OCOfLs?si=j04PGudBRM41OsJ0