From Prompt Engineering to Loop Engineering — The Next Big Shift in AI

A 5-minute read on why the future isn’t about writing better prompts — it’s about building better loops. The Old Way: One Question, One Answer For the last few years, “prompt engineering” has been the buzzword everyone learned. The idea was simple: if you write the perfect prompt — the right words, the right structure, the right examples — you get the perfect answer back. This works great for simple tasks. Ask a good question, get a good answer. But it has a ceiling. A single prompt, no matter how well craf