http://www.heyuan110.com/tags/agentic-loops/Recent content in Agentic Loops on Bruce on AI EngineeringHugoenFri, 03 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0800http://www.heyuan110.com/posts/ai/2026-07-03-agentic-loops/Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0800http://www.heyuan110.com/posts/ai/2026-07-03-agentic-loops/<p><img src="http://www.heyuan110.com/posts/ai/2026-07-03-agentic-loops/cover.webp" alt="Agentic loops and self-looping AI agents in 2026, from ReAct to the Ralph loop" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" width="1200" height="630" /> </p> <p>Here is the one sentence that separates a chatbot from an agent: a chatbot answers one prompt in one pass, an <strong>agent runs a while loop that carries state across turns</strong>. That loop — reason, act, observe, repeat — is the entire mechanism. Everything else in the 2026 agent stack is decoration on top of it. And in 2026 the loop grew up: agents stopped being limited to a single request-response exchange and started running for minutes, then hours, unattended.</p>