Loop Engineering – Andrew Ng

>Loop engineering” is a hot buzzphrase after mentions of it by Boris Cherny (Claude Code’s creator) and Peter Steinberger (OpenClaw's creator) went viral on social media.

Just adding that context here.

At a WorkOS event discussion on the 2nd of June, Boris Cherny said:

> I don't prompt Claude anymore. I have loops that are running. They're the ones that are prompting Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RkQQ7WEor7w&time_continue=704

This is then Peter Steinberger's tweet on the 7th of June:

> Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.

and the immediate response from Gautham Pai:

> Oh god, LinkedIn will now start a new fad, "Loop Engineering". Harness Engineering is so last year. Loop Engineering is what you should be doing.

https://xcancel.com/steipete/status/2063697162748260627

And then Addy Osmani quickly wrote a post about it on the day which triggered a discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514387

And there was another interesting discussion here about Armin Rochar's more critical take on loops a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643180