
Prompting is dead. It's all about loops.
Prompting is the new COBOL. Still technically works. Still widely practiced. Ancient. Boris Cherny — the guy who built Claude Code — said it straight: “I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops that are running. They’re the ones prompting Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops.” Peter Steinberger said the same thing. 2.2 million people saw it. The point isn’t subtle: the work has moved up a level. You don’t write the code anymore. You write the system that writes the code. ...