Agentic Engineering
As I was updating the homepage of this website recently I kept coming back to my title of "Software Engineer". I realized this is a job I don't have anymore.
As the field of coding has changed over the past four years, I've grounded myself in the idea that jobs do not exist. Groups of tasks do. I suspect it will be important for many of us to recognize as much sooner or later. Along with humility and a sense of non-attachment.
I've learned that I may wake up on any given day and find another set of tasks I no longer need to do. Tools, systems, LLMs, agents, and harnesses continue to eat all my tasks.
Every part of me is grateful.
Karpathy wrote about "Agentic Engineering" in his recent one-year retrospective on coining Vibe Coding.
Agentic Engineering resonates with me. But so too does something like Maestral Engineering which captures the power of creativity and curiosity when working with these tools.
For the time being I've updated my homepage to reflect "Agentic Engineering".
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