Top #1 Opportunity for Senior Engineers: Agentic Engineering
Summary
Two engineers. Same agent. Same 200K tokens. Wildly different results. 🔥 That gap IS the opportunity. Karpathy just named agentic engineering at the Sequoia AI Ascent, which means the window where you're early is already closing. By the end of 2026, this is the default. So here's my message to myself, and to you: stop vibe coding and start engineering the system that builds the system. 🎥 VIDEO REFERENCES • Karpathy Sequoia AI Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96jN2OCOfLs • Pi Coding Agent: https://pi.dev/ • Pi vs Claude Code (free extensions repo): https://github.com/disler/pi-vs-claude-code •…
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