agentic-coding

Outcome Driven Development

Zohaib Rauf· May 4, 2026 · 1 min read min read

I feel there is spectrum between vibe coding and agentic engineering, which I like to refer to as Outcome Driven Development (ODD). Agentic engineering is using agents but evaluating its outputs with the same thoroughness as if you wrote code by hand. ODD is where you care less about the generated code but more about the outcomes it produces and do a thorough testing on those outcomes.