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Field notes on agentic AI development, loop engineering and autonomous coding agents — from the team building an open-source, self-hosted AI workspace.

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The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Is the Salon Next Door

Elon Musk said most businesses still have no API — they run on a phone, or without one. I spent dozens of meetings chasing that idea and found a niche hiding in plain sight: the salon, the clinic, the dental office next door.

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Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Loop Engineering.

Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Loop Engineering.

The engineer leading Claude Code at Anthropic just admitted he doesn’t prompt the model anymore — he writes loops that prompt it for him. Here’s why that ends the “AI whisperer” era, and how we turned it into production architecture.

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