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
We’ve been running a series of experiments using ChatGPT 5.4 integrated into a website chatbot across different environments: 🌐 a main website 🎯 Goal: simulate realistic user behavior and observe how the model responds over time. ⚙️ Test setup The chatbot is designed to (no self promo here, just context): 📌 answer strictly based on website content (RAG-like approach) Over time, we intentionally
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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
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