loop engineering: how to build ai loops that don't lie to you

.intro For two years the skill was the prompt. find the right words, add an example, say "think step by step", ship. that skill still matters. it just stopped being the bottleneck. the work moved one

.intro For two years the skill was the prompt. find the right words, add an example, say "think step by step", ship. that skill still matters. it just stopped being the bottleneck. the work moved one level up. you don't write the message anymore. you write the system that writes the messages: a goal, a way to act, a way to check, a place to remember, and a rule for when to stop. then it runs. ten times, a hundred times, overnight. people started calling this loop engineering, and this june the t