Author(s): Darshandagaa

Originally published on Towards AI.

loop engineering

“My job is to write loops.”

That’s Boris Cherny, who leads Claude Code at Anthropic. He’s said he stopped prompting Claude directly and now spends his time designing the loops that prompt it for him [1]. That line, and a couple of others like it, kicked off a wave of loop-engineering explainers this year [1][2]. I read six of them. Then I built one.