The Great Loops Debate — Dex Horthy, Geoff Huntley, Ian Livingstone, Greg Pstrucha, @insecure-agents
Practitioners debate whether AI agent loops live up to their hype in production software factories
An Oxford-style panel debate at AI Engineer brings together builders from Key Card, Human Layer, Sentry, and the Ralph loop framework to argue whether there is a meaningful gap between the hype around agentic loops and what actually works in practice today. The framing question — whether this moment is truly the largest inflection point toward fully autonomous software factories — signals real practitioner skepticism beneath the consensus narrative. The content captured is introduction and framing only; no substantive arguments or findings are yet presented.