Loop Engineering: Building Blocks, Adoption, and Impact
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Jai Lal Lulla, Vahram Nersesyan, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Christoph Treude, Sebastian Baltes
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Jai Lal Lulla, Vahram Nersesyan, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Christoph Treude, Sebastian Baltes
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
Why it matters
Names the pattern of systems that prompt agents for you and enumerates what a sound loop contains: triggered runs, machine-checkable stop conditions, persistent state, verifier sub-agents, tokenThe chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.Full definition → budgets, escalation points.
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