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Simon Willison Publishes 'Agentic Engineering Patterns' Guide — Chapter 1 Lands at 144pts, 85cmts
Willison published the first chapter of his new 'Agentic Engineering Patterns' guide (March 16, 2026), defining agentic engineering as distinct from vibe coding: where Karpathy's original definition was 'forget the code exists,' agentic engineering means producing production-ready code with coding agents while the human owns goals, verification, and iteration. The guide frames what humans are actually for — navigating tradeoffs, updating instructions from learned failures — rather than just prompting. HN community responded at 144pts/85cmts, suggesting this framing is landing as a useful vocabulary anchor.
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