Loop Engineering Resources
The reading list behind the directory — the roots of the agent loop, and the June 2026 wave that named it.
1. Building Effective AI Agents
Anthropic — The canonical text that first defined an agent as an LLM running in a loop with tools.
2. Ralph Wiggum as a "Software Engineer"
Geoffrey Huntley — The origin essay of the loop everyone is rediscovering: a bash while-loop, a PROMPT.md, and fresh context every iteration.
3. The viral post
Peter Steinberger — The 6.5M-view two-liner from June 8 that set everything off: design loops that prompt your agents.
4. Loop Engineering
Addy Osmani — The post that gave the movement its name, days after the thread blew up.
5. WTF Is a Loop? Peter Steinberger vs. Boris Cherny
A recap of the definitional fight the timeline had for a week.
6. What a Loop Actually Is: Boris Cherny's Three-Stage Definition
The Claude Code lead's own find-work, act, verify framing, unpacked.
7. Codex Loops: What Boris Cherny Gets Right
Developers Digest — Cherny's real setup: recurring agents managing PRs, CI, deploys, and feedback streams.
8. I Don't Prompt Claude Anymore. I Write Loops That Prompt Claude
James Fahey — A practitioner's step-by-step recreation of the loop-driven workflow.
9. Loop Engineering
Cobus Greyling — An analyst's breakdown of the core loop components: scheduled automations, worktrees, skills, memory.
10. The 10x Skill for AI Engineers in 2026: Agent Feedback Loops
Owain Lewis — Why feedback-loop design, not prompting, is the leverage skill of the year.
11. Karpathy's Autoresearch Loop Is Spreading Fast
TechTimes — The loop pattern jumping from coding into research.