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Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding." A year later, on stage at Sequoia's AI Ascent 2026, he called it obsolete — and said he's never felt more behind as a programmer. This free field guide is the plain-English playbook of what he actually meant. Inside: the SIX IDEAS that changed everything (Software 3.0 — you now program in English; the December-2025 inflection where the unit of work went from lines to whole jobs; verifiability — AI automates what you can CHECK, not just specify; jagged intelligence — genius and clueless in the same model; ghosts-not-animals — it has no instincts or 'why'; and floor-vs-ceiling — vibe coding raised the floor, agentic engineering raises the ceiling), each decoded with what it is and the exact move you make. Then the WORKFLOW: the agentic engineering loop (Spec → Plan → Agents → Diffs → Review → Ship) showing the four steps you still own, the agent-native infrastructure checklist (CLIs, APIs, MCP, structured logs, scoped permissions), the 'is it verifiable?' test you run before delegating anything, a six-rule safety layer for jagged intelligence, a 10-point pre-flight to run your next task like an agentic engineer, and a one-line glossary of every term. The one line to remember: you can outsource your thinking, but you can't outsource your understanding.

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