{"slug": "loop-engineering-why-some-developers-stopped-prompting-their-ai-agents", "title": "Loop Engineering: Why Some Developers Stopped Prompting Their AI Agents", "summary": "Two leading AI coding agent developers, Boris Cherny of Anthropic and Peter Steinberger of OpenClaw, have stopped manually prompting their AI agents and instead design systems that automate the prompting process. This shift, dubbed 'loop engineering,' is gaining industry attention as a new paradigm for AI-assisted coding, with figures like Andrew Ng and Google Cloud AI director weighing in.", "body_md": "Member-only story\n\n# Loop Engineering: Why Some Developers Stopped Prompting Their AI Agents\n\n**Two of the top minds building today’s most advanced AI coding agents have quietly stopped doing one thing:**\n\nManually prompting their agents.\n\nInstead, they now spend their time **designing the loops** that prompt the agents for them.\n\n**Boris Cherny, who leads Claude Code at Anthropic, **openly says he no longer prompts Claude himself. He writes the **systems** that prompt it.\n\n**Peter Steinberger, **creator of the fast-growing open-source agent **OpenClaw**, has been urging developers to make the same shift:\n\nStop being the person typing prompts. Start becoming the person who designs the system that does the prompting.\n\nBoth are still shipping code at high speed with AI every day.\n\nIn a matter of weeks, this idea went from a tweet to industry conversation. A Google Cloud AI director gave it a name. Bloomberg put real dollar figures on what happens when it’s done poorly. And Andrew Ng dedicated an entire newsletter to it.\n\nThe message is clear: **The game is changing.**\n\nIf you’ve spent the past year mastering prompt engineering, your skill isn’t obsolete but…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/loop-engineering-why-some-developers-stopped-prompting-their-ai-agents", "canonical_source": "https://pub.towardsai.net/loop-engineering-why-some-developers-stopped-prompting-their-ai-agents-5e28c4cb2814?source=rss----98111c9905da---4", "published_at": "2026-07-19 06:00:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-19 06:26:54.790363+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Boris Cherny", "Anthropic", "Claude Code", "Peter Steinberger", "OpenClaw", "Andrew Ng", "Google Cloud"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/loop-engineering-why-some-developers-stopped-prompting-their-ai-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/loop-engineering-why-some-developers-stopped-prompting-their-ai-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/loop-engineering-why-some-developers-stopped-prompting-their-ai-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/loop-engineering-why-some-developers-stopped-prompting-their-ai-agents.jsonld"}}