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Grimoire creator Nick Dobos and Hamel Husain argue developers should replace manual agent prompting with autonomous agent loops and meta-agents

Meta-agents will autonomously generate prompt sequences based on intent.

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Nick Dobos@NickADobos#1923inTech

Agent x Loop

It should have been obvious 3 years ago to that putting an LLm in a loop was the endgame. I’m surprised y’all weren’t already thinking about ai coding like this

Your job is not to guide a coding agent

It’s to surf on the back of a bucking bronco demon alien that’s smarter than you and can work in 1000x parallel

That’s an entirely different task from writing clear linear tickets or product descriptions for small features

You don’t tell an agent to pick up a hammer and assemble a chair with a detailed design spec. It already knows to do that. Your new job is building onboarding documents, design direction & high level cultural values (aka decision frameworks) for a furniture factory, distribution center & business

Then you simply hire Ai workers on loop to do the thing

It’s very similar to the way fast food restaurants have standardized and documented practices to teach dumb unmotivated and non-sober high schoolers how to run a fully working restaurant, at the scale of millions

Except instead of producing burgers or chairs you produce code & outcomes via software

Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore.

You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.

1:21 PM · Jun 8, 2026 · 18.2K Views
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Matthew Berman@MatthewBerman

Should be a fun morning

Matthew Berman@MatthewBerman

wtf is a loop?

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aarya@gd3kr

@0interestrates i love building the pipeline that builds the pipeline that builds the pipeline

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rahul@0interestrates

if you’re still writing loops that prompt coding agents you’re falling behind. you need to build a meta agent that infers what loops you would have wanted based on your vibe and then write those loops

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@0interestrates if you’re still doing meta agent with predictive intents, you’re not going to make it. you need to be building the hyperagent at the end of time who can retrocausally influence the present

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@0interestrates If you’re still thinking you’re falling behind.

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BOOTOSHI 👑@KingBootoshi

"building onboarding documents, design direction & high level cultural values"

me discovering ADRs the other week, i just posted about my workflow and it is basically this haha

for my current codebase it still requires discussion but the more design gaps I fill in the more my agents are aligned

feeling very close

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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

The prompt era is ending. That's too linear, too bottlenecked by humans.

We are entering the loop machine of AI agents.

The value is in moving judgment upstream, so the human designs the process and the model handles the recurring friction.

Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore.

You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.

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RTK@RiverKhan

@0interestrates i use this beanie to telepathically tell my agents what to do

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Nick Khami@skeptrune

@0interestrates @SumanHazra_ you must make the tokens burn themselves

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@rohanpaul_ai Nah, he has unlimited tokens and budget, absolutely prioritizing quantity over quality. For most of us, we’ll not stop carefully prompting anytime soon.

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Gilson Melo@gmelo33

@0interestrates Use Codex /goal with the product design plugin is another way to create a loop for a specific goal. Try that. I paused a /goal after 10 hours building a macOS app. Amazing results.

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Buster Douglas@oxyscapist

@0interestrates What do you mean 'build' a meta agent? That too yourself?! You are still half assing it if you don't have a master meta loopoid that decodes your DNA and consumes your genes to become a mecha-hyperloop.

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@0interestrates i run this and it actually works, btw. generally, i tell the agent to infer my intent when asking what to do next, and then consider task/operational details.

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Nathan Wilbanks@NathanWilbanks_

@rohanpaul_ai agreed 👍

been moving up the abstraction chain lately myself. yesterday my agent coded for 6 hours porting pokemon ruby to WASM, while i was at the pool 😆

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Axiom Alpha@axiomalpha

@0interestrates If you are still building a meta agent that infers loops that prompt agents to write code for you, you're already behind.

You should be manifesting visions that are picked up telepathically by your personal AI deity that then reconfigures the world to match your vision.

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endorsi@EndorsiVal

@0interestrates you’re still building meta agents? Mine are plugged straight into prod metrics dashboards and my whole company runs autonomously.

Catch up

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Greg Mushen@gregmushen

@0interestrates @SteveMoraco It’s turtles all the way up.

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shaurya@shauseth

@0interestrates you simply need to wait for the agent in the future that runs high fidelity simulations of you instantly finishing all your dream side projects

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Morgan@morganlinton

@0interestrates If you weren’t going to say it I was 😜

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shazaib@sbhzi

@0interestrates if you’re writing meta agents you’re behind, it should be able to genetically evolve an agent like survival of the fittest that catches the best loop like a pokemon

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