--- title: Loop engineering at AI Engineer World’s Fair... description: A recap of talks from the AI Engineer World's Fair focusing on 'loop engineering' for AI coding agents. Kyle Messel warns that most developers are building... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/loop-engineering-at-ai-engineer-world-s-fair-softwareengineering-agenticai-yyk03pkje twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Loop engineering at AI Engineer World’s Fair #softwareengineering #agenticai | daily.dev og:description: A recap of talks from the AI Engineer World's Fair focusing on 'loop engineering' for AI coding agents. Kyle Messel warns that most developers are building... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/loop-engineering-at-ai-engineer-world-s-fair-softwareengineering-agenticai-yyk03pkje og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YYK03pKje.png og:image:alt: Loop engineering at AI Engineer World’s Fair #softwareengineering #agenticai 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. # Loop engineering at AI Engineer World’s Fair #softwareengineering #agenticai **[Temporal](https://daily.dev/sources/temporal)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A recap of talks from the AI Engineer World's Fair focusing on 'loop engineering' for AI coding agents. Kyle Messel warns that most developers are building 'blind loops' — piping prompts to agents and letting them run unchecked, producing massive, unreviable PRs. His proposed fix draws from control theory: incremental, sensor-driven feedback cycles that keep humans in the loop. Peter Steinberger echoes this, describing a shift from babysitting multiple terminal windows to managing a hierarchy of agents. The core insight is that while loops are easy to start, keeping them on the rails requires real engineering discipline and proper structure around failure handling. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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