Agentic engineering vs AI engineering: one builds software with agents, the other builds agents as the product
Al_Grigor · x · 2026-10-15
Citing Hugo Bowne-Anderson, Alexey Grigorovets distinguishes two often-confused roles: in agentic engineering you build software with agents — the agent is part of the dev team, and your job is specification, delegation, review, and orchestration; in AI engineering you build agentic search, RAG, or an agent itself, where AI is part of the product and you think about models and prompts. The post also promotes his Substack newsletter on building and operating AI systems (8,000+ subscribers).
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