Loopcraft: Practitioners Shift From Prompting Agents to Designing Autonomous Loops

Summary

Latent Space's June 12 AINews issue crystallizes an emerging practitioner consensus it calls "loopcraft": the discipline of building agentic systems as nested, self-sustaining loops rather than steering them with one-off prompts. The piece stitches together near-simultaneous statements from several prominent builders — Peter Steinberger ("You shouldn't be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops"), Boris Cherny ("I don't prompt Claude anymore. I write loops, the loops do th