Loop engineering, latest AI buzzword, still needs humans in the loop
ai and ml
Prompting less and automating more comes with a price
Writing prompts is so … 2025! AI influencers and industry luminaries have declared that prompts are out and loops are in, and maddeningly this has become blog fodder and grist for the news cycle.
Never mind that AI agents, which are models using tools in a loop, have involved loops since people started yammering about them last year. Never mind that programming has always had constructs for repetition, even before the do-loop appeared in Fortran.
The word from the AI-pilled is that if you're writing prompts and checking each response, as opposed to having AI agents address multi-step tasks with minimal input, you're doing it wrong.
The recent focus on loops can be attributed in part to Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw who went on to join OpenAI, even though the likes of Andrej Karpathy were writing...
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