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I used to talk about the while (true) agent loop as a design pattern. After reading Anthropic's engineering write-up, I now treat it as a proven operating model. They used an autonomous loop to help build a real C compiler, and the result was not a toy demo. It compiled substantial code, including Linux, across multiple architectures.
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