Agentic swarm coding is the new enterprise moat

In just a few months, the ability of AI to perform complex software engineering has accelerated at a dizzying, non-linear pace. The improvement has been documented in several ways. Driven by several major advances in technology and practice, it amounts to a fundamental change in how software is created, one that is already making last year’s paradigms obsolete.

The era of "vibe coding" – the conversational, often exploratory practice of prompting an AI for code, coined by Andrej Karpathy – has given way to a more disciplined concept: agentic swarm coding.