--- title: What Is Loop Engineering? | daily.dev description: Loop engineering is a workflow pattern where instead of manually reviewing bug reports, a developer sets up an orchestrating AI agent that runs on a schedule... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-loop-engineering--16v7ducdz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What Is Loop Engineering? | daily.dev og:description: Loop engineering is a workflow pattern where instead of manually reviewing bug reports, a developer sets up an orchestrating AI agent that runs on a schedule... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-loop-engineering--16v7ducdz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/16v7DUcdz.png og:image:alt: What Is 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. # What Is Loop Engineering? **[NeetCode](https://daily.dev/sources/neetcode)** · 1 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Loop engineering is a workflow pattern where instead of manually reviewing bug reports, a developer sets up an orchestrating AI agent that runs on a schedule (e.g., every 24 hours), reads all incoming bug reports, spawns a sub-agent for each bug, and has each sub-agent validate and attempt to fix the issue by opening a pull request. 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