Maintenance in progress

two converging signals this cycle show ai development shifting from prompt engineering toward autonomous loop architectures. anthropic's head of claude code stated publicly that he no longer writes prompts — instead, he writes loops that prompt the model autonomously. separately, researchers published 'self-harness,' a framework that lets ai agents rewrite their own operational rules, reporting performance gains up to 60%. both signals point to a structural change in how agentic systems are built and governed: humans designing the loop, not the instruction.

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