我对Loop Engineering的思考

Loop engineering is the new label. The hard part is the one it has always been. Verification.

loop engineering是一个新标签。但困难的部分始终如一。那就是Verification。

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There is a line doing the rounds. Boris Cherny, who created and now heads Claude Code, told the Fortune Brainstorm Tech audience in June that he no longer writes the prompts himself. His phrasing was that it is now another Claude doing the prompting. On a given morning he is managing hundreds of agents, sometimes thousands.

有一句话正在流传。创建并现在领导 Claude Code 的 Boris Cherny 在六月份的 Fortune Brainstorm Tech 观众面前表示，他不再自己编写 prompts。他的说法是，现在是另一个 Claude 在进行提示。在某个早晨，他管理着数百个 agents，有时甚至数千个。

The framing that has grown up around this is "loop engineering." The pitch goes in three phases. 2024 was writing good prompts. 2025 was running agents in parallel. 2026 is building the loop that runs the agents for you. You stop typing prompts and start designing the system that types them.

围绕这一概念发展起来的框架被称为“loop engineering”。其推介分为三个阶段。2024年是编写优秀的prompts。2025年是并行运行agents。2026年是构建为你运行agents的loop。你不再手动输入prompts，而是开始设计输入它们的系统。

That framing is fine as far as it goes. It also buries the part that decides whether your loop ships anything. A loop is a generator wired to a verifier. The generator was never the bottleneck. The verifier is.

这种框架在某种程度上是可行的。但它也掩盖了决定您的循环能否交付成果的关键部分。循环是一个连接到验证器的生成器。生成器从来不是瓶颈。验证器才是。

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What a loop actually is

循环实际上是什么

Strip the language back. A loop replaces the human cycle of prompt, read, prompt again with a self-running cycle: discover, plan, execute, verify, repeat until a condition is met. The agent drives its own iterations. You design the track it runs on.

精简语言。一个循环取代了人类提示、阅读、再次提示的循环，变成了一个自动运行的循环：发现、计划、执行、验证，重复直到满足条件。智能体驱动自身的迭代。你来设计它运行的轨道。

The simplest vers...