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Agents2026-06-29 · source-backed
The Batch flagged the phrase after both Boris Cherny (Claude Code) and Peter Steinberger (OpenClaw) used it, naming the practice of designing an agent's outer iterate-act-verify loop rather than its prompts or harness. Single-shot prompting is fading. The optimization that matters now is the loop. Worth tracking because where the language goes, the tooling follows.
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Simon Willison uses Claude Code / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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Boris Cherny uses Claude Code / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Boris Cherny uses Claude Code); both cover Boris Cherny, Claude Code; overlapping topics (agent, bori, cherny, claude, code).
Boris Cherny uses Claude Code / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Boris Cherny uses Claude Code); both cover Boris Cherny, Claude Code; overlapping topics (agent, bori, cherny, claude, code).
OpenClaw uses Claude Code / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
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Boris Cherny uses Claude Code / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Boris Cherny uses Claude Code); both cover Boris Cherny, Claude Code; reported by the same outlet (deeplearning.ai).
Boris Cherny uses Claude Code / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Boris Cherny uses Claude Code); both cover Boris Cherny, Claude Code; overlapping topics (agent, bori, cherny, claude, code).
Boris Cherny uses Claude Code / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Boris Cherny uses Claude Code); both cover Boris Cherny, Loop; overlapping topics (agent, bori, cherny, engineering, loop).
Linked by a graph relationship (Boris Cherny uses Claude Code); both cover Boris Cherny, Loop; overlapping topics (agent, bori, cherny, engineering, loop).