Vibe Coding Is Dead. What Replaces It?

The AI & Tech Society by Danar · May 28, 2026 · 16m

Is vibe coding over? Great for prototypes, but the new bottleneck is context, rules and review. Here is how agentic engineering works and what developers should do differently.

The Three-Panel Framework

Panel 1: Vibe Coding

You → Prompt → Model → Code

Fast to start

Feeling over structure

Good for prototypes

"You ask the model to solve the problem directly"

Panel 2: What Changed

Stronger models are not the whole answer

The new bottleneck is context, rules, and review

Engineer writes spec → Sets rules → Lets agents work → Reviews output

"You code less. You steer the system more."

Panel 3…