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Effect v4 Beta entered July with correctness fixes, URL API refinements, and AI documentation expansion, including Schema and Predicate introductions. The update also fixed HttpApi security middleware…
Effect v4 Beta entered July with correctness fixes, URL API refinements, and AI documentation expansion, including Schema and Predicate introductions. The update also fixed HttpApi security middleware…
At the AI Engineer World's Fair, industry leaders highlighted the growing importance of AI agent loops, where systems iteratively evaluate and refine their outputs without human intervention. Microsof…
Andrew Ng introduces three key loops for building 0-to-1 products with AI agents: the agentic coding loop, developer feedback loop, and external feedback loop. He argues that humans retain a context a…
Agent loops fail in production due to state management issues in the database, not model quality, according to a CockroachDB analysis. Common failures include inconsistent state, interrupted writes, a…
OpenClaw, the free open-source AI agent, launched mobile apps on iOS and Android on Tuesday, allowing users to run agents from their phones via the OpenClaw Gateway. The app follows OpenClaw's viral s…
A developer named Shivansh Pandey created a Claude Code skill called loop-engineering that automates the process of setting up loop engineering in a repository. Loop engineering replaces manual step-b…
OpenClaw released free iOS and Android companion apps that connect a phone to a self-hosted AI agent Gateway, turning the device into a node with access to camera, location, voice, and other hardware …
Open source AI agent OpenClaw has launched a native iOS app, enabling iPhone and iPad users to access its self-hosted AI agent for chat, voice approvals, and device-aware automation. The app replaces …
OpenClaw released standalone apps for iOS and Android, bringing AI agents to smartphone marketplaces. The apps allow users to chat with an AI assistant and grant it access to device components like ca…
A new trend called 'loop engineering' is gaining traction in the software development community, where engineers design autonomous loops that allow coding agents to execute tasks without human interve…
Boris Cherny of Anthropic, Peter Steinberger, and Addy Osmani of Google are promoting 'loop engineering,' a workflow where developers design automated loops that prompt AI agents instead of typing pro…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan released gstack, an open-source tool that turns Claude Code into a virtual engineering team, enabling him to ship 40+ features in 60 days while running YC full-time. Tan cla…
A developer known as Luhui Hu introduces the concept of 'Loopcraft,' a shift from prompt engineering to designing agent loop systems that automate task discovery, execution, verification, and retry. T…
SoloEngine, the first low-code Agentic AI development platform, enables building production-grade autonomous AI loops without writing code. It encapsulates Loop Engineering's six core primitives into …
A practical field guide to agentic loops—the simplest unit of useful agent work—has been synthesized from current practice by Addy Osmani, Peter Steinberger, Boris Cherny, and others. The guide explai…
Loop engineering, a new trend in software development, allows engineers to design autonomous coding agents that operate without human intervention, freeing them from manual prompting. The concept, pop…
A growing consensus among AI coding tool users advocates for writing loops instead of prompts, shifting from manual agent steering to designing systems that automate repetitive tasks. The approach aim…
Google fired a 7-year veteran engineer, Justin Poehnelt, after he built an open-source, agent-ready CLI for Google Workspace that went viral on Hacker News. The tool, now hosted under Google's own Git…
Spraay, an x402 payment gateway with 170+ endpoints across 16 chains, has been made loop-native to support autonomous agent loops. The gateway now allows agents to pass a callback URL on requests, eli…
GitHub hosts over 4.3 million AI repositories, but only a few projects consistently appear in developer workflows. Eleven key repos, including OpenClaw and pi-mono, signal a shift toward local-first, …