AIEWF: The Great Loops Debate and the State of AI Engineering

Summary

Latent Space's AI Engineer World's Fair dispatch frames the "loops debate": whether autonomous software factories built on agent loops are production-ready now, or whether the engineering discipline hasn't caught up to the hype. Geoffrey Huntley argues agent loops are inevitable and here to stay; Dex Horthy counters that "the hype is outrunning the discipline," warning against overselling autonomy before proper controls exist. This is the central tension in agentic delivery right now — capabilit