Getting started with loops
There’s a lot of talk right now about "designing loops" instead of prompting your coding agent. If you spend some time on X trying to pin down what a loop actually is, you'll come across multiple different answers.
Issue · July 6–12, 2026
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There’s a lot of talk right now about "designing loops" instead of prompting your coding agent. If you spend some time on X trying to pin down what a loop actually is, you'll come across multiple different answers.
Hundreds of hours of trial and error, handed over for free. Even if you rewrite half of it, a working reference library beats a blank page every time. Go take what's useful.
A cost pattern worth stealing. Let the expensive frontier model do the planning and hand the grunt work to cheaper ones. Obvious in hindsight, and it quietly changes how you budget a project.
The clearest writing yet on why the model stopped being the bottleneck. Thariq's frame: the gap between what you asked for and what the work actually needs is where quality leaks out, and the real skill is surfacing those gaps before, during, and after you build. Worth reading twice.