Proposing a Taxonomy of Agentic Engineering

The Problem

The Thesis

The Three Knobs

Stakes

Verifiability

Grokking

The Taxonomy

Vibe Coding

Vibe Engineering

Agentic Engineering

Human-Driven Development

Hand Coding

How to Choose

Grokking: The Real Bottleneck

Closing

Easy

High | Human-driven | Agentic Eng | Stakes | (or invest in | (review | | verification) | critical | | | paths) | |---------------|-------------| Low | Vibe Eng | Vibe Coding | | (guardrails) | (YOLO) |

Grokking overlays as a gradient or badge: “Grokking required” increases toward top-left

Could render this as an actual component with hover states.

OPTIONAL: Decision Quiz Widget

Three sliders:

Stakes: Low / Medium / High
Verifiability: Easy / Medium / Hard
Grokking: Strong / Moderate / Weak

Output: Recommended mode + caveats

This is more work but very on-brand for the “tools for deciding” goal. —>