How to make AI coding agents do real work — repeatedly, verifiably, and without you babysitting every step.

Synthesized from current practice (2025–2026): Addy Osmani's "Loop Engineering," Peter Steinberger's "Just Talk To It" and "Shipping at Inference‑Speed," Boris Cherny's talks on Claude Code, Geoffrey Huntley's Ralph technique, Matt Van Horn's "WTF Is a Loop?", the Forward Future Loop Library, the Lushbinary loop‑engineering guide, and the working loops shared by practitioners like Matthew Berman, Eric Lott, Hiten Shah, and others.

1. 🔄 What an agentic loop actually is

2. 🔧 From prompting to loop engineering

3. 🐣 Where the loop began: the Ralph technique