108 PRs in Eight Days: Accidentally Discovering Loop Engineering

I recently shipped 108 pull requests in eight days by implementing a loop engineering system with an AI agent. Instead of line-by-line reviews, my team shifted to outcome-based testing, allowing rapid iteration while maintaining quality. This approach moved my focus from writing code to defining specs and verifying results, proving that human effort is now the bottleneck in the pipeline.

It almost feels like being a software engineer in 2026 is just being a product manager and QA.

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