Agentic Loops: Why the Best AI Coding Workflows Are Loops, Not Prompts (opens in new tab)

The teams shipping real work with coding agents have moved past one-shot prompts to a different shape entirely: the loop. Act → check against a hard gate → repeat until it converges. Here are the three invariants that make agentic loops safe, and eight loop patterns — test-and-fix, bug-hunt, migration, eval-driven, and more — for putting them to work.