I Know Folks Are Side Eyeing the Loop Discourse But... ![rw-book-cover](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1558092645855121410/4rN25JDj.jpg) 🔗 **Source:** [I Know Folks Are Side Eyeing the Loop Discourse But...](https://twitter.com/techgirl1908/status/2064163231174996109/?rw_tt_thread=True) 📄 **Full text:** ![[Full Document Contents/Tweets/I Know Folks Are Side Eyeing the Loop Discourse But....md|I Know Folks Are Side Eyeing the Loop Discourse But... by Angie Jones]] ## Highlights - **Loop engineering is replacing yourself as the person who prompts the agent. You design the system that does it instead.** **A loop here can be thought of a recursive goal where you define a purpose and the AI iterates until complete.** It's roughly five building blocks and Claude Code and Codex both have all five now. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01ktpct35vb05ebx1q1gpgw8h7)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - @steipete recently [said](https://x.com/steipete/status/2063697162748260627): “You shouldn't be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.” Similarly, @bcherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, [said](https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2063289804708835412) “I don't prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops”. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01ktpct3645da50a1409rpk6c7)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - Now you build a small system that finds the work, hands it out, checks it, writes down what is done and then decides the next thing, and you let that system poke the agents instead of you. I wrote before about the cousin of this, [agent harness engineering](https://addyosmani.com/blog/agent-harness-engineering/), which is making the environment one single agent runs inside and the [factory model](https://addyosmani.com/blog/factory-model/) - the system that builds the software. Loop engineering sits one floor above the harness. The harness but it runs on a timer, it spawns little helpers, and it feeds itself. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01ktpct36cearg52pdqzwnh38f)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted