Prompting is a dead skill. The leverage is in the loop.
Sidebar's 'Loop Engineering' makes a single, blunt argument: the unit of AI productivity is no longer the prompt, it is the automated system that generates, evaluates, and iterates on prompts without you. Craft a good loop and your prompting ability is irrelevant. Craft a bad one and no amount of prompt skill saves you.
The piece is short but the implication is not. If loops are the new primitive, then the next question is how to design, test, and version-control them. The original is worth reading for where it points, not just where it lands.
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