What Is Loop Engineering, and Why Is It More Than Prompting an Agent?
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Loop engineering is not just better prompting. It is the outer system that decides when agents run, what inputs they consume, how work is split, how results are verified, what gets remembered, and what happens next. Prompting improves a run. Loop engineering designs the system that keeps runs happening.
The shift matters because many people already use agent tools every day, but still act as manual schedulers who decide each next prompt. Loop engineering starts when that orchestration layer itself becomes a system design problem.