Loop Engineering Is Mostly Papering Over a Model That Won't Converge

<p>Most developers spent 2023 and 2024 experimenting with AI-assisted code completion and chat interfaces. Those tools were useful—but they were also passive. You typed a prompt.

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<p>Four agents entered an infinite loop in November 2025. They ran for 11 days. The bill was $47,000. Nobody noticed until it was over.</p> <p>The team was running a market

<p>Claude's context window holds 200,000 tokens. Gemini's stretches to two million. But response quality starts degrading long before the window fills up. Window size doesn't

<p><strong>TL;DR:</strong> I built the same browser agent twice — once with 500 lines of Python, once with 7 lines of JSON. The second one took 5 minutes. The agent harness layer

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><strong>Submitted by:</strong> Adam Kruger <strong>Date:</strong> March 23, 2026 <strong>Models Solved:</strong> 3/3 (M1, M2, M3) + Warmup</p>

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