Loopcraft: The Art of Stacking Loops

Joy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800

This is a translated and adapted excerpt from Latent Space / AINews.

There is a lot of “loop discourse” in the air:

Steipete: “Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.”
Boris: “I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I write loops, the loops do the work.”
Andrej on Autoresearch: To get the most out of the tools that have become available now, you have to remove yourself as the bottleneck. You cannot be there to prompt the next thing. You need to arrange things so they are completely autonomous, maximize token throughput, and not be in the loop. The goal now is to increase your leverage. You do not want to be the researcher in the loop looking at every result and holding the system back. The question becomes: how do I refactor the abstractions so I arrange it once and hit go?

This framing is compelling, and many people do not realize how many loops we are already inside:

Automation on E7Coding