I was out walking with my dog Dexter, daydreaming on the first properly warm day of the year. I was lost in my own mind mulling over a conversation I'd had with a fellow Game Developer about how we've adapted to the use of AI as software engineers. None of the existing labels fit. "Vibe coding", Karpathy's term, elicits a culture of care-free one-shotting with little to no regard for the code quality, just keep prompting until it runs. "Agentic engineering" has also drifted toward a fire-and-forget autonomy, where you describe a goal, the agent disappears for an hour, and returns with a pull request you merge in the quiet hope that nobody asks you about it later. Neither description fit the experiences that my colleague and I were having. What we do is closer to editing, so to my mind the term editorial engineering seems a more appropriate fit, and here's why. Firstly, it's worth being clear about which kind of editing I mean. Not text editing, not the typing itself.…