A while-true loop buys persistence, not correctness. A wrong turn, looped, is just a faster way to be wrong — put the skeptic inside the loop.
Disclosure up front: I build agentproto, which runs
checks inside an agent's loop rather than only at the end. Everything about
why that matters you can verify without me — the sources are named and dated,
and I'll concede where the plain loop is exactly right. Corrections welcome,
file an issue.
Published June 15, 2026 by gyorgy The current discourse says you should stop prompting coding agents...
Originally posted on the Springhead build log. The way I pictured an unattended agent loop dying was...
The Ralph loop Is not enough! Looping is all the rage right now, but without a state machine, your agent can confidently repeat…
Why agent failures become expensive once the runtime keeps retrying without proving anything changed.
The Ralph loop Is not enough! Looping is all the rage right now, but without a state machine, your agent can confidently repeat…
Author(s): Remy B. Originally published on Towards AI. Loop Engineering in Claude Code: Let the Agent Run ItselfStop…
