AI Fundamentals
Loop Engineering: The Signal, the Smoke, and the New Craft of Saying When to Stop
'My job is to write loops,' says Claude Code's creator; 'it's cron with a hat on,' replies the skeptic. Both are partly right. We separate the evidence (independent verifiers, structural bets, distilled memory) from the smoke, with Goodhart's law as the warning and this newsroom as the test bench.
