Software factory

A software development pipeline where people supply the instructions and checks, and agents do most of the building, testing and fixing.

Kind of

Agentic A way of working in which an agent plans and carries out the work, decides its own next steps, and uses tools to complete a task or goal.

Vibe coding A way of building software where a person describes what they want and accepts the code AI tools write without reading it, judging only whether the result works.

Agentic coding A type of programming where a person gives a goal or loose instructions, and an agent decides its own next steps to plan, write, run and test the code.
Loop engineering A practice of building where an agent keeps rerunning and checking its own work, with set rules for when it stops and when it asks a person to step in.
Human-on-the-loop A setup where an agent acts on its own while a person watches and can step in or stop it.
Full-stack builder A person who uses AI tools to take a product from idea to launch alone, doing the work of a product manager, a designer and an engineer.