What Does 'Loop Engineering' Mean?

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Designing the repeating plan-act-observe cycle an AI agent runs through to complete a task, tuning how often it checks in, retries, or hands control back to a human.

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"Spent more time on loop engineering than the actual task logic."

LORE & ORIGIN

Practitioner term for the specific engineering problem of the agentic loop itself — separate from the model, the prompt, or the harness, but the thing that determines whether an agent actually finishes a task.

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