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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... show more
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Cycles for AI are something new.

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

Its a constant learning and development process

this is the shift from single shot to durable systems

Yes ma man

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.

Still worth a try

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Doing it this way is far more successful than before

honestly this would've been better without the music

"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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Thanks for sharing this, really useful rabbit hole to explore

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

hell yes

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

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This is the future. Loops > one shot prompts forever
