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Agents2026-06-29 · source-backed
The Batch flagged the phrase after both Boris Cherny (Claude Code) and Peter Steinberger (OpenClaw) used it, naming the practice of designing an agent's outer iterate-act-verify loop rather than its prompts or harness. Single-shot prompting is fading. The optimization that matters now is the loop. Worth tracking because where the language goes, the tooling follows.
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Addy Osmani from the Chrome team wrote up a phrase this month that's going to stick: loop engineering. The idea is plain once you've lived it. You stop writing prompts and start designing the system that prompts, verifies, and remembers for the agent. The model isn't the bottl...
The headline feature: /loop 5m check the deploy schedules a recurring prompt that fires every 5 minutes in the background. Boris Cherny demoed: "/loop babysit all my PRs -- auto-fix build issues and when comments come in, use a worktree agent to fix them." Tasks auto-delete af...
The full recordings include the keynote, a Dario and Daniela Amodei conversation, and a live coding session between Boris Cherny and Bun's Jarred Sumner. The engineering talks are where the value is: GitHub on caching, harnesses and advisors at scale, Datadog's universal machi...
Published July 16 by the Claude Code creator: Gated (0 agents, legacy approvals) → Assisted (~1, pair programming) → Parallel (~10, orchestrator role) → Supervised autonomy (~100, manager-of-managers) → AI-native (1,000+, intent steering). Anthropic self-reports operating at S...
A four-line config file became a ten-rule discipline this week, and it's the most actionable thing I read all month. Update your own CLAUDE.md today. A document attributed to Andrej Karpathy circulating on X expands the famous four-rule community CLAUDE.md template to ten, per...
Boris Cherny, the person who built Claude Code, told Sequoia's AI Ascent that he hasn't personally written a line of code in 2026. He delegates 100% to AI. Ships dozens of PRs daily from his phone. Predicts the title "software engineer" starts disappearing by end of 2026, repl...
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