Loop Engineering
June 13, 2026Posted by Roberto Stagi
"Loop engineering is replacing yourself as the person who prompts the agent. You design the system that does it instead."
Everything started with a tweet from @steipete:
Then Addy Osmani wrote a full article about it.
The thesis is that 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:
- Automations that go off on a schedule and do discovery and triage by themselves.
- Worktrees so two agents working in parallel dont step on each other.
- Skills to write down the project knowledge the agent would otherwise just guess.
- Plugins and connectors to plug the agent into the tools you already use.
- Sub-agents so one of them has the idea and a different one checks it.
And Claude Code and Codex both have all five now.