Vibe coding is a good starting point, but it is not where serious AI-assisted development ends. The next step is agentic engineering: using AI coding agents inside a controlled engineering workflow, with context, tests, review and clear boundaries. Vibe coding often focuses on the generated output: Ask for feature -> get code -> run it -> ask for fixes Agentic engineering focuses on the system ar
This post was created with AI assistance and reviewed for accuracy before publishing. Cursor can use project rules and documentation to steer behavior. Exact file names and mechanisms evolve; check Cursor documentation for the current layout (for example rules in .cursor or legacy .cursorrules patterns). Short, enforceable bullets beat long essays: stack versions, test commands, “no new dependenci
Vibe coding is one of those terms that sounds unserious until you notice how many people are actually doing it. The basic idea is simple: describe what you want, let an AI coding tool generate the implementation, run it, adjust the prompt, and keep going. It can feel magical. It can also go wrong very quickly. Vibe coding works best when the problem is visible and forgiving: small prototypes inter
At 3:17 AM on a Tuesday in Q3 2024, our production Kotlin 2.0 microservice fleet hit a 92% memory utilization threshold across 140 nodes, traced to a silent coroutine leak in Ktor 2.2’s request pipeline that had been bleeding 12MB of heap per second for 72 hours. We lost $14k in SLO credits before we found the root cause. A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury (78 p