Loop Engineering: Why Prompt Engineering Is Becoming Obsolete (opens in new tab)

For the last two years, "Prompt Engineering" has been one of the hottest skills in AI. People spent countless hours optimizing prompts: Add more context. Use chain of thought. Ask the model to think step by step. Create reusable prompt templates. Entire courses, books, and careers emerged around writing the perfect prompt. But something fundamental has changed. The future isn't about writing better prompts. It's about building better loops. Prompt Engineering Assumes One Conversation Traditio...