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Field notes on building AI products that ship.
What an AI agent does all day.
Loop engineering in plain English. What an AI agent is, how it checks its own work, and the four jobs it pays for first in a small or midsize business.
The loop is not the hard part. The gate is.
Loop engineering describes how production AI gets built. It leaves one question open: who decides the work is finished. That answer has to run outside the model...
The half nobody photographs.
A harness has two halves. Specification tells the model what to build. Enforcement proves the system works. One photographs well. The other holds when something...
The failures that built the harness.
Three real failures that shaped every rule in our AI engineering harness. What broke, why it looked fine, and what we built to stop it repeating.
AI does not fail at building software. We fail at building the harness.
The model is the brain. The harness is the engineering you wrap around it. Why directed AI ships production software and free AI breaks.