The Ralph loop Is not enough! Looping is all the rage right now, but without a state machine, your agent can confidently repeat itself over and over and call it a job well done. Here's what I mean:
Check out the video here: Watch on LinkedIn
"I don't prompt Claude anymore. My job is to write loops."
— Boris Cherny, Claude Code creator
Though I see where he's coming from, I'd put it differently.
A developer's job isn't to write loops. It's to design state machines.
The Ralph loop Is not enough! Looping is all the rage right now, but without a state machine, your agent can confidently repeat…
Over the last few days, my feed has been filled with posts about agent loops. The message is usually...
Issue #61 |Three Extensions That Turn your For Loop into an Agent like Claude Code
Published June 15, 2026 by gyorgy The current discourse says you should stop prompting coding agents...
a quiet day lets us highlight a great concept from Peter Steinberger, Boris Cherny, and Andrej Karpathy
Originally published at dragosroua.com. There's a line from Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code,...
