A recent focus on "loop engineering" in AI, where agents handle multi-step tasks with minimal input, has been attributed in part to Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw who went on to join OpenAI, though Andrej Karpathy wrote about and implemented AI loops months earlier. Steinberger wrote in a social media post on June 7, "Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents." Ed Zitron replied, "Does OpenAI bill itself for its token spend?" The article notes this is primarily about celebrating autonomous token consumption, spending that OpenAI and its peers want to stimulate. Zitron also skewered Anthropic's Boris Cherny for his advocacy of loops, writing, "Pretty convenient for a guy who’s allowed to burn upwards of $130,000 a month in tokens by Anthropic." Gautham Pai, founder of corporate learning biz Jnaapti, responded, "Oh god, LinkedIn will now start a new fad, 'Loop Engineering'." A blog post titled "Loop Engineering" appeared that day on developer Addy Osmani's blog, concluding, "The loop changes the work, it does not delete you from it."