--- title: Let's Understand Agentic Loop Engineering! | daily.dev description: Loop Engineering is a concept focused on eliminating developer intervention in software workflows by designing autonomous agentic systems that self-prompt and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/let-s-understand-agentic-loop-engineering--l7hiintgd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Let's Understand Agentic Loop Engineering! | daily.dev og:description: Loop Engineering is a concept focused on eliminating developer intervention in software workflows by designing autonomous agentic systems that self-prompt and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/let-s-understand-agentic-loop-engineering--l7hiintgd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/L7HiintgD.png og:image:alt: Let's Understand Agentic Loop Engineering! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Let's Understand Agentic Loop Engineering! **[Pavan Belagatti](https://daily.dev/sources/dfa0u7-fs)** · [@johhnypav](https://daily.dev/johhnypav) · 2 min read · 52 upvotes · 17 comments ## Summary Loop Engineering is a concept focused on eliminating developer intervention in software workflows by designing autonomous agentic systems that self-prompt and iterate until defined success criteria are met. Instead of writing prompts manually, developers define goals and let the agent handle tasks like running unit tests, checking coverage thresholds, executing linters, and stress tests. The post references Claude Code creator Boris Cherny's approach of writing loops that self-prompt rather than writing prompts directly. ## Content Developers spend so much time writing prompts instead of building & shipping software. This consumes significant engineering bandwidth and slows down the process. The core idea of Loop Engineering is to eliminate developer intervention altogether through agentic automation. In the software development context, this includes tasks such as: - Verifying the working of unit tests. - Ensuring the coverage is above a threshold. - Running the linters. - Executing stress tests and guaranteeing no performance impact. To remove developer intervention, the developer would state the success criteria and the agentic system would verify whether the criteria is met after making the code changes. It would continue until the criteria is met. Once developer intervention is eliminated, the agent becomes autonomous and works until the task is done. We can define Loop Engineering as - The art of designing autonomous systems that work towards a goal without human prompts. As Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code said - “I don’t write prompts any more. I write loops that self-prompt Claude Code”. The below diagram illustrates how the Agent interacts with the LLM and drives a goal to completion. Here is my complete hands-on walkthrough on loop engineering: https://youtu.be/RvG7R0Ue1k4 If you like to know more in-depth on Agentic loop engineering and best practices, this is my hands-on guide: https://youtu.be/VWB-6_A5XH8 Image credits: Animesh Gaitonde ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@trevorsuna** · 6 upvotes > Success criteria are the real engineering work in these loops. Tests and coverage thresholds are useful, but they can still reward the wrong behavior. I’d include bounded retries, cost limits, and a clear stop condition so autonomy does not turn a bad assumption into an endless loop. **@elmarchavez** · 3 upvotes > This is interesting. I would like to ask, when would be a good time to intervene again, or do we not intervene anymore. I'm kinda new in loop engineering. **@agustinbarrientos** · 2 upvotes > Every loop change can go through review when success criteria live beside the code **@phatdangminh** · 2 upvotes > Many thanks! **@gertoska** · 2 upvotes > Great video! I can see a lot of potential for reducing engineering toil with this approach. 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Tests and coverage thresholds are useful, but they can still reward the wrong behavior. I’d include bounded retries, cost limits, and a clear stop condition so autonomy does not turn a bad assumption into an endless loop.","datePublished":"2026-08-03T02:43:48.615Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/L7HiintgD#c-OULbuWsOE","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Trevor Suna","url":"https://daily.dev/trevorsuna","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--dZ7gXxpp--/f_auto/v1784081551/avatars/avatar_EMoP47rpuw8DNjhp6R1b6?_a=BAMAMicg0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":6}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"This is interesting. I would like to ask, when would be a good time to intervene again, or do we not intervene anymore. 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I can see a lot of potential for reducing engineering toil with this approach. 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