https://www.businessinsider.com/what-are-loops-ai-engineering-tips-2026-6For the most powerful voices in AI, it's all about being in the loop. Claude Code creator Boris Cherny recently said he doesn't write his own AI prompts much anymore. Thanks to loops, he doesn't have to. "It's an agent that prompts Claude," Cherny recently said, adding, "I don't write the prompt anymore. Claude writes the prompt, and now I'm talking to that new Claude that is kind of coordinating." In the same interview, Cherny said that loops and a similar feature were examples of the kind of work he would be proudest of in a decade.Cherny isn't the only one embracing "loop engineering." OpenAI engineer Peter Steinberger, the creator of the viral OpenClaw project, wrote a public reminder to users who are still writing out prompts for AI agents. "Here's your monthly reminder that you shouldn't be prompting coding agents anymore," Steinberger wrote recently on X. "You should be designing loops that prompt your agents." Steinberger shared an example of a loop he uses: "Tell codex to maintain your repos, wake up every 5 minutes and direct work to threads. That makes it easy to parallelize+steer work as needed."Claire Vo, founder of ChatPRD and host of the "How I AI," said, "it's really just reminding people that you don't have to use your human fingers to type in a prompt in order for your agent to do work on your behalf.">The days of directly prompting generative AI coding tools are "kind of over, or at least some think it's going to be," Addy Osmani, director of Google Cloud, wrote in his post explaining the concept.
>>537919377checked and loop pilledso a chatbot is prompting a chatbot? i dont get it?its like setting an alarm?
>just get used to using a trillion tokens every time you need to add a semicolon, that'll be $25,000/month once your trial runs out
>Steinberger
Good work newsfinn
>>537919377They fucking banned public use of new AI models so who cares
damn I feel sorry for all the compsci undergrads who only got into it because of the COVID big tech boom, and are now getting absolutely shafted in their graduating years because they've been fully replaced by AI (Artifical Intelligence) and AI (Another Indian)it's truly fucking over for codemonkey degree holders lmao. this is why you should never FOMO into something just because it's popular at the time. works for both choosing a degree and general investing.
You can set up a service on a timer or build a cron. I couldn't imagine actually having AI churning away using that much CPU and electricity just to tell it to do something every 5 minutes.If you thought bloat and inefficiency was a problem today wait til these retards become the senior engineers.
>>537920044not all AI models, just the newest ones
>>537920057I feel nothing but contempt for the subhumans who were in it just for the 6-figure salary.
>>537919377It's amazing how much of the software industry is just made up jargon to make it sound like they're doing something special.
>>537920276I remember many many years ago opening qbasic and seeing gorillas.bas and realizing games ran on human readable code... Sort of.I just sat there for hours trying to reverse engineer what I saw on screen. I could change the size of the banana they threw. I could max out the throw distance, etc.It hooked me. I had to write my own stuff.I went on BBSes and downloaded other people's qbasic examples.I read through it all and started writing my own programs to impress my friends. Then I found ways to make useful programs that made life easier for me.That's how I got into it. It's been weird watching the influx of "I heard CS was in huge demand" guys suddenly show up.Then again with the npm revolution, I may as well just retire anyway.Getting fucking sick of JavaScript taking over.
>>537919377These cucks are just now finding this out. In 2023 I've basically hung around elite prompting clubs. And this was the standard, you're a fucking cuck if you write prompt yourself. You explain a concept and AI writes that prompt.
