My Job Is to Write Loops

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:54:23 +0000

Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, said something recently that matched my own experience: “I don’t prompt Claude anymore… my job is to write loops.” Peter Steinberger put it more bluntly: “You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.”

I’ve been building LLM-powered pipelines on top of Spring Integration for a while, and those two lines named what I had been doing without quite realizing it. My time had stopped going into prompts. It was going into the loops around them.

Loops on Hullabalooing

My Job Is to Write Loops