Anthropic's 'Loop Engineering' Hype Called Out as Repackaged Cron Jobs
thor123321 · reddit · 2026-08-11
A developer questions the recent concept of 'Loop Engineering' touted by an Anthropic executive. The exec excitedly stated that having agents run on cron jobs is the future of AI.
The poster argues this is essentially just traditional cron job automation wrapped in fancy terminology—'old wine on new bottles' designed to make people feel behind. It sparks a discussion on whether current AI Agent concepts are over-hyped.
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