How is this different than Prompt Engineering?

I think prompt engineering is obsolete at this point, partly because it's very hard to do better than just directly stating what you want. Asking for too much tone modification, role-playing or output structuring from LLMs very clearly degrades the quality of the output.

"Prompt engineering" is a relic of the early hypothesis that how you talk to the LLM is gonna matter a lot.

Prompt engineering didn't imply coding agents. That's the big difference: we are now using tools write and execute the code, which makes for massively more useful results.

Prompt engineering was coined before tooling like Claude Code existed, when everyone copied and pasted from chatgpt to their editor and back.

Agentic coding highlights letting the model directly code on your codebase. I guess its the next level forward.

I keep seeing agentic engineering more even in job postings, so I think this will be the terminology used to describe someone building software whilst letting an AI model output the code. Its not to be confused with vibe coding which is possible with coding agents.

"Prompt" was derogatory /s