Loops are replacing prompts. Verification is about to be your biggest problem.
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Agentic development is entering a third era where the loop itself—not prompts or specs—becomes the unit of work, with developers writing systems that generate, evaluate, and retry tasks via scheduled loops containing decision-making models. This shift moves verification from a per-developer concern to a platform engineering responsibility, requiring consistent checks, environments, budgets, and evidence across all loops in an organization—analogous to how platform teams standardized CI/CD a decade ago. The engineering challenge is ensuring loops converge on correct outputs rather than wandering, with the verification layer now operating in the inner loop before any PR exists.