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It’s strange how fast we are moving — ** prompt engineering **→ context engineering →
and now
loop engineering**!**
graph engineering
So, is this just wordplay, or how does it make sense?
That question came from Jim, who is currently learning software engineering in the AI era.
And honestly, I sometimes get it wrong when I throw around terms like these without stopping to explain the basics.
Agentic coding is developing too fast. Sometimes we have to slow down and understand the fundamentals before chasing the next thing.
Loop engineering is one of those terms getting tossed around everywhere right now. Most people assume it is something complicated and academic. It is not.
So — what is loop engineering?
In this post, I will make it very clear with a practical example you can follow along.
You Are Already Running a Loop #
Before we get to loop engineering, we need to talk about what you are already doing every single day when you work with an LLM.
You open Claude or ChatGPT and type a promptThe model gives you back an output You read it, decide it is not…