Perhaps you've heard the term Loop Engineering : instead of solving a problem by hand, you build a system, set a measurable goal, and let an agent keep iterating until it gets there.
It sounds great until something goes wrong.
So I sat down with Annie Wang：https://www.linkedin.com/in/anniewangtech/ to talk through the four most common ways Loop Engineering breaks down, and how to fix each one.
Have you hit any of these failure modes yourself? Tell me which one (or more) got you.
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