Agentic engineering is not a tool you install; it is a way of building software. Where a copilot autocompletes the line you are typing, an agent works toward a goal — reading a codebase, planning a sequence of actions, executing them with real tools, checking the result and adjusting. The human states intent and decides what ships.
It is distinct from ad-hoc AI use (vibe coding) because it is disciplined: small reviewable scopes, curated context, and deterministic gates wired in so failures self-correct before a human looks. The depth treatment is What Is Agentic Engineering?; where an organisation sits on the journey is the The AI Engineering Maturity Model.