Loop Engineering Is Deciding Which Unknowns to Close, on Which Clock
Loop engineering is not just running agents longer. It is deciding which unknowns minute-, hour-, and day-scale feedback loops are allowed to close.
I build tools that make data and AI accessible to everyone. Creator of Seeknal, co-founder of ClaimMind. I write about data engineering, harness engineering, and the journey from engineer to founder and CTO.
Loop engineering is not just running agents longer. It is deciding which unknowns minute-, hour-, and day-scale feedback loops are allowed to close.
Loop engineering moves AI work beyond better prompts into repeatable systems that ask, check, retry, remember, and know when authority requires verification.
Agentic engineering moves engineers from chatting with AI tools to designing harnesses, software factories, verification gates, access controls, and token-to-value systems that make agents reliable in production.
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After a decade building data infrastructure — from data scientist to CTO — I got tired of stitching together 5+ tools that don't talk to each other. So I built Seeknal — one CLI for pipelines, features, metrics, and AI analysis.