Loop engineering: pushing the agent harness harder boosts long-horizon model capabilities
omarsar0 · x · 2026-09-30
- omarsar0 highlights the /goal team's observation that pushing the agent harness to do more has also pushed model capabilities on long-horizon tasks.
- The underlying problem was informing the agent when to stop — which led to 'loop engineering' as an emerging practice.
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