Agentic engineering, AI hiring, and how engineering teams ship software in 2026. Token-spend KPIs, interview formats, governance patterns, and the senior-talent shift.
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Interview guide for agentic engineering hires: 4 phases, 21 questions plus a build-and-break take-home, with green-flag and red-flag scoring. PDF download. Karpathy: 'Most people have not refactored their hiring process.'
Jensen Huang expects 50 percent of an engineer's salary. Tunguz calls tokens the fourth compensation component. Meta has a dashboard. What that means for hiring.
Andrej Karpathy coined 'vibe coding' in 2025 and retired it himself in 2026. What agentic engineering actually means in practice, where the difference lies, and why it matters for hiring in 2026.
How engineering hiring has shifted in 2026: Karpathy's terminology, METR data, Anthropic as proof-of-practice, and the pacemaker model for senior freelance hires.
