{"id":1543,"date":"2026-06-20T10:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanhomejournals.com\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2026-06-20T10:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:04:16","slug":"forget-prompt-engineering-loop-engineering-is-all-the-rage-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanhomejournals.com\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"Forget prompt engineering: ‘Loop engineering’ is all the rage now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the most powerful voices in AI, it’s all about being in the loop.<\/p>\n

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny recently said he doesn’t write his own AI prompts much anymore. Thanks to loops, he doesn’t have to.<\/p>\n

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“It’s an agent that prompts Claude,” Cherny recently told CNBC, adding, “I don’t write the prompt anymore. Claude writes the prompt, and now I’m talking to that new Claude that is kind of coordinating.”<\/p>\n

In the same interview, Cherny said that loops and a similar feature were examples of the kind of work he would be proudest of in a decade.<\/p>\n

Cherny isn’t the only one embracing “loop engineering.” OpenAI engineer Peter Steinberger, the creator of the viral OpenClaw project, wrote a public reminder to users who are still writing out prompts for AI agents.<\/p>\n

“Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore,” Steinberger wrote recently on X. “You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.”<\/p>\n

What are loops?<\/h2>\n

Loops are recurring systems that guide AI agents, so the user doesn’t have to constantly write prompts themselves. An example is \/goal, which instructs an AI tool like Anthropic’s Claude Code or OpenAI’s Codex to keep working until a task is completed, rather than requiring a prompt at each step.<\/p>\n

Claire Vo, founder of ChatPRD and host of the “How I AI,” might have summed it up best by saying, “it’s really just reminding people that you don’t have to use your human fingers to type in a prompt in order for your agent to do work on your behalf.”<\/p>\n

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