Andrew Ng's The Batch Frames 'Agentic Coding Loops' — Let the Agent Keep Working Until It Satisfies the Spec

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The July 10 issue of Andrew Ng's The Batch centers on agentic coding loops: structuring an agent to keep iterating autonomously until it satisfies a condition, such as meeting a written product specification, rather than stopping after a single pass. It's a distinct topic from Ng's earlier-in-the-week 'the AI world is incredibly noisy' letter, and it reads as a practitioner endorsement of the spec-as-halting-condition pattern that's becoming standard in long-running coding agents.