# Designing agentic loops

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## What Jamie wrote

Great read from Willison on building agents. Must read for, well, everyone.

> A critical new skill to develop is designing agentic loops.
> 
> One way to think about coding agents is that they are brute force tools for finding solutions to coding problems. If you can reduce your problem to a clear goal and a set of tools that can iterate towards that goal a coding agent can often brute force its way to an effective solution.

Good stuff.

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