Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

Andrej Karpathy (co-founder of OpenAI, former head of AI at Tesla, and now founder of Eureka Labs) talks with Sequoia partner Stephanie Zhan at AI Ascent 2026 about what's changed in the year since he coined "vibe coding." He explains why he's never felt more behind as a programmer, why agentic engineering is the more serious discipline taking shape on top of vibe coding, and why we should think of LLMs not as animals but as ghosts: jagged, statistical, summoned entities that require a new kind of taste and judgment to direct. He also touches on Software 3.0, the limits of verifiability, and why you can outsource your thinking but never your understanding.

Qwen3-Coder-Next offers vibe coders a powerful open source,
ultra-sparse model

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers has emerged in the last year as one of the global leaders of open source AI development, releasing a host of powerful large language models and specialized multimodal models that approach, and in some cases, surpass the performance of the proprietary U.S. leaders such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI.

Now the Qwen team is back again this week with a compelling release that matches the "vibe coding" frenzy that has arisen in recent months: Qwen3-Coder-Next, a specialized 80-billion-parameter model designed to deliver elite agentic performance within a lightweight active footprint.

Google’s vibe-coding tool Opal comes to Gemini

Google’s vibe-coding tool, Opal, is making its way to Gemini. The company said it is integrating the tool, which lets you build AI-powered mini apps, inside the Gemini web app, allowing users to create their own custom apps, which Google calls Gems.

6 INSANE Github Repos You NEED For Vibe Coding

Discover 6 powerful Vibe Coding repos to boost your dev workflow! Whether you use Claude Code or Cursor AI for ai coding, these open-source tools—from BMAD workflows to UI libs, MCP servers, and LLM app builders—will 10x your productivity.

Google's SECRET Vibe-Coder

In this video, I'll be telling you about Google AI Studio's hidden coding feature that nobody talks about - an incredibly powerful and completely free AI coder that rivals paid alternatives like Bolt, with unlimited usage and excellent React app generation capabilities.

A 3-step AI coding workflow for solo founders

Ryan Carson is a five-time founder who has spent the past 20 years building, scaling, and selling startups. In this episode, he shares his playbook for using AI to build products, turning “vibe coding” into a structured and scalable approach that can replace full engineering teams.

Context Engineering is the New Vibe Coding

The honeymoon phase for vibe coding is over and context engineering is the new paradigm for AI coding. Earlier this year we all fell for the vibe coding but it completely falls apart when you try to build anything real or scale it up. The biggest problem? AI coding assistants miss context or lack it entirely, and intuition doesn't scale - structure does.

Context engineering treats your instructions, rules, and documentation as an engineered resource requiring careful architecture, just like everything else in real software. It's not just prompt engineering - it's supplying all the relevant facts, knowledge, rules, plans, and tools so an LLM can actually accomplish the task at hand.

Genspark ditches rigid workflows for autonomous agents

Vibe coding has been all the rage in recent months as a simple way for anyone to build applications with generative AI.

But what if that same easy-going, natural language approach was extended to other enterprise workflows? That’s the promise of an emerging category of agentic AI applications. At VB Transform 2025 today, one such application was on display with the Genspark Super Agent, which was originally launched earlier this year.

GitHub CEO predicts the future of programming

Matthew Berman's interview with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on how AI is changing software development.