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AI Loops: How the World's Best Engineers Use AI
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- Limitless: An AI Podcast
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- Jun 11, 2026
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- 1851
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Summary
AI Loops have taken over our timeline as a more autonomous way of using AI models, alongside prompting, agents, and harnesses. Today, we compare practical use cases, note how AI runtimes have expanded to hours or days, and talk about costs, enterprise limits, and the human role in higher-level work. ------ 🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️ NEWSLETTER: https://limitlessft.substack.com/ FOLLOW ON X: https://x.com/LimitlessFT SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQ APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890 RSS FEED: https://limitlessft.substack.com/ ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 AI Autonomy Ladder 1:49 From Prompts to Agents 4:59 Understanding AI Loops 10:35 Why Autonomy Is Rising 15:46 Human Taste Still Matters 20:38 The Cost of Intelligence 25:25 Recursive Self-Improvement 27:32 Four Rungs Explained 29:41 Closing ------ RESOURCES Josh: https://x.com/JoshKale Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures