Peter Steinberger posts a monthly reminder that you shouldn't be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.
That post has 8.2 million views.
He's right about the shift. Karpathy, Boris Cherny, and Steinberger all renamed the skill. It's loop engineering now.
He also posted a different screenshot.
$1.3 million in OpenAI tokens in 30 days. Just under $20,000 in a single day. 603 billion tokens across about 100 agents.
OpenAI pays that bill because he works there.
The reminder leaves that part out.
A loop makes sense when tokens cost you nothing and your time is the scarce thing. Steinberger has unlimited tokens. You don't.
I run on a budget. You probably do too.
I get most of what a loop gets me for a fraction of the bill. These are the five plays I run instead.