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Getting yourself out of the loop
The end state isn't a faster chat — it's work that runs without you.
Draft in progress. The full piece is being written here. The seed below is the through-line; I'll expand it into the finished essay.
Most people stop at "the agent helps me faster." The real leverage is loop engineering: scoping a job so an agent can run it end to end, then scheduling it (cron) so it happens on a timer, unattended. What makes that safe to trust isn't the model — it's the harness around it: hooks for control, evals so quality is measured, and observability so you can see what ran and step in only when you need to. That's how you get yourself out of the loop instead of babysitting it.