Loop Engineering: Stop Failed Successfully
After a lovely and productive conversation with your client, with still ringing ears, you check the coding agent's last log messages on a ticket that …
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Loop Engineering: How to Stop Your Agent Reward-Hacking Its Own Checks
You gave the agent a failing test and told it to get the suite green. It came back green. Then you read the diff: it did not touch the code under test…
Loop Engineering: Fine-Tuning the Guardrail That Fired Wrong
The check had been green for a week. It greps every diff under src/ for import mock , because production code has no business importing a mock library…
Deterministic Guardrails: Prompts Steer, Hooks Enforce
A loop that refactors code until a check passes is a few lines of shell. Most guardrails beside such a loop only watch what an agent already wrote; th…
Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering, Loop Engineering: What Actually Changed
A few years back the skill had one name: prompt engineering. You rewrote a sentence until the model did the thing. Last year the same corner of the jo…
You Can't Secure What You Can't See: Shadow AI and the Inventory Problem
Part 1 of "Trust the Machine" -> a series on building AI infrastructure that is secure, compliant, and governable by design. Most organizations can…
what's all this hype about "loop engineering"
Honestly it's not a new concept. this feature already existed in models before. problem was the models were just weak. Looping only works if each atte…
Loopcraft: Stop Prompting, Start Designing Loops
On June 7, 2026, Peter Steinberger — the creator of OpenClaw — posted twelve words that ricocheted across every AI engineering corner of the internet:…