Loop engineering from first principles: agent loops that work in the real world (Kyle Mistele, HumanLayer)

Kyle Mistele

Talks worth your time · Agentic engineering · 2026-10-09 · 17 min · 11 pages

Senior AI engineer: "We've all been building loops lately - and I think we're all doing it wrong." In a 17-minute talk on why piping a prompt into a loop just gives you 40,000-line PRs nobody wants to read. sensor → set point → controller → actuator → re-measure → repeat https://t.co/9iMmtKRuOV

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