New Delhi, June 21 -- Anthropic co-founder and Claude Code creator Boris Cherny has updated his perspective on the evolution of AI-driven development. Having previously proclaimed that "software engineering is dead," Cherny now asserts that the era of manual AI prompting is drawing to a close.

As reported by Business Insider, he argues that the industry's future belongs to loop engineering-a paradigm where AI agents autonomously generate and iterate on their own prompts. For context, loops are self-sustaining systems that direct AI agents to execute tasks without continuous human intervention. For example, a single command like /goal can mandate an AI model to work continuously until an objective is met, eliminating the need for step-by-...