Agentic Engineering Is Not Vibe Coding: The Three-Skill Loop I Use to Ship Distributed Systems

There is a category error running loose in our industry right now, and it is costing teams real money. The error is treating vibe coding and agentic engineering as the same activity performed at different levels of enthusiasm. They are not the same activity. They have different units of work, different failure modes, different artifacts, and, this is the part that matters, different economics when you point them at a production payment system that moves other people's money. I build distributed…