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THE GUY RUNNING CLAUDE CODE AT ANTHROPIC JUST SAID HE DOESN’T PROMPT AI ANYMORE. He writes loops. That’s a huge difference. A prompt tells Claude what to do once. A loop gives Claude a goal. Then Claude keeps checking its own work… Finding mistakes. Writing its next prompt. Trying...

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iamigorekk4 months ago

Cycles for AI are something new.

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Adel Bucetta4 months ago

that's the thing about loops: they don't just automate tasks, they let ai develop an internal sense of what "good" looks like. that changes everything

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kiosa4 months ago

Its a constant learning and development process

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Rezzi4 months ago

this is the shift from single shot to durable systems

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kiosa4 months ago

Yes ma man

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Truntr4 months ago

Loops only work when three things exist: A goal state Claude can recognize A reliable verifier (eval, test, or human) A bounded retry policy Skip any of these and your "loop" is just an expensive way to get the same wrong answer 50 times. Context matters. Verifiers matter more.

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kiosa4 months ago

Still worth a try

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Justin Steele4 months ago

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kozh ./4 months ago

Doing it this way is far more successful than before

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I Tweet Lines4 months ago

honestly this would've been better without the music

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AI Mastery Guide4 months ago

"A prompt tells it what to do once, a loop gives it a goal" is such a clean way to put it.

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Stephanie Russell4 months ago

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Marik 🦖🔴🔴🔴4 months ago

Thanks for sharing this, really useful rabbit hole to explore

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Nepp4 months ago

the difference btw prompt and loop only matters if you have a working judge. without one the loop hallucinates for 40 iterations then quietly gives up mid-task

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Sarah Blake4 months ago

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Sophia Clark4 months ago

Huh, loops over prompts. Isn't that just scripting with extra steps?

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0xSlyth4 months ago

hell yes

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kocer4 months ago

yeah loops beat single prompts any day especially with full repo context

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Andrew Washington4 months ago

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Mira | OnChain Insights4 months ago

This is the future. Loops > one shot prompts forever

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