Loop engineering
emergingReal practice, thin evidence. Mostly vendor-stated or reported rather than measured.
Designing the system that prompts the agent instead of prompting it yourself. Named by Addy Osmani on 7 June 2026; attribution is genuinely muddled, with other accounts crediting different coinages. The practice is real and the load-bearing part is the caveats, which the marketing versions drop: a loop running unattended is a loop making mistakes unattended, and “done” is a claim rather than proof.