Yesterday I cohosted a dinner with @dexhorthy with a wonderful group of founders, to talk about agent loops and loop engineering. Some interesting insights: * Most of our group was *not* actively using /loop in Codex/Claude Code * You can build long-running autonomous agent loops through multi-agent handoffs, event triggers, or….just stacks of cron jobs (?) * Almost everyone believes that no one will be reviewing code in 1-2 years. * The more interesting question is whether we’d be reviewing *anything* in 1-2 years. * AI is still a bit of a skill issue. Humans are responsible for maximizing AI output and reducing slopification. * Will human intellect provide alpha as models get better, or will the playing field be leveled? Most people think it will be leveled a bit, but there is a need for humans to provide alignment, guardrails, judgment, creativity. * The minimum amount of context you need for AI could be just the codebase with some documentation. Any research/plan files are for one-off tasks and not meant to be maintained. Having a self-organizing wiki is nice but adds complexity. If you missed this one, we’ll be hosting more dinners like this on a regular cadence! If you have thoughts on what we should talk about, let us know :) (e.g. continual learning, RL envs, competitive differentiation vs. Anthropic, etc.)