first thing to know about loops is the difference between “while” and “for”
9:08 PM · Jun 8, 2026 · 11.6K Views
Developer Joseph Suarez argues the distinction between while and for loops reduces to conditional versus unconditional jumps in assembly
Prime Intellect's Will Brown initiated the debate on iteration concepts
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Some users praised the builder's lesson on while vs for loops, while others dismissed it as basic CS101 or irrelevant to real agent loop problems.
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Joseph Suarez 🐡@jsuarez
@willccbb you mean conditional and unconditional jump?
will brown@willccbb
first thing to know about loops is the difference between “while” and “for”
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gabe@allgarbled
@willccbb If anybody has trouble remembering, a great mnemonic is “the LOOP keeps going FOR a WHILE”
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Naveesh /looping@krapstarr
@willccbb Real men use if else
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Martian@space_colonist
@willccbb they're the same thing in assembly so pretty sure i've missed the joke 😔
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will brown@willccbb
@krapstarr in 2026?
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Jake Halloran@jakehalloran1
@space_colonist @willccbb Joke about lab staff with unlimited tokens loop maxing
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Devang Borkar@DevangBorkar
@willccbb do while mogs both
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Mert Gulsun@mert_gulsun
@willccbb I try to learn but always end up off by one
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Chief Yeti@0xchiefyeti
@willccbb "for" all the features "while" usage limit not reached
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Adam Mainz@MainzOnX
@willccbb What do you do while loops?
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aespa(x)@aespa__init
@willccbb yea they run for a while
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jbr@jjbrrj
@willccbb no love for goto loops?
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Yash@yash1_
@willccbb Or just use print statements in the whole code just for the sake of it.
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Daniel Lougen@DJLougen
@willccbb And fruit, i used to confuse for and fruit, grocery store staff are not good code debuggers 😕
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Aakash Mallik@malliktwts
@willccbb What about do..while?
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Anish Bhanushali@anish_9207
@willccbb Why whole tech twitter is revisiting cs101 all over again!
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Vladimir Sotnikov@Vvsotnikov
@willccbb /goal loops are “until” loops tho
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Hanchi Sun@sun_hanchi
@willccbb Let’s invent the until syntax
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dirty uncle leo@dirtyuncleleo
@willccbb Nest those bitches
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Naveesh /looping@krapstarr
@willccbb Switch case for emergencies only
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