Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

Andrej Karpathy — OpenAI co-founder, ex-Tesla AI lead, now running Eureka Labs — sits down with Sequoia's Stephanie Zhan at AI Ascent 2026 to take stock of the year since he coined 'vibe coding'. His framing: agentic engineering is the more serious discipline forming on top of vibe coding, and the right mental model for an LLM isn't an animal but a ghost — a jagged, statistical, summoned thing that takes a new kind of taste and judgment to direct. Along the way he covers Software 3.0, the limits of what's verifiable, and the line he keeps coming back to: you can outsource your thinking, but never your understanding.

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