Dan Luu @danluu.com · 22/09/2026Did Ralph loops ever work? They were popular for a while, but when I did a comparison, they underperformed. There were all these theories about why Ralph loops were effective ("invert the latent space of the model"), but AFAICT people just didn't run the comparison? danluu.com/pl-tokens/#r... 4330
Ant Stanley @iamstan.dev · 22/09/2026I think at the time (all of 9 months ago), agents would randomly stop, and something was needed to get it to resume. Agents don't do that anymore. A spiritual successor is the /goal command most agents support these days 150
John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Yep, I found them very effective for keeping the agents going on long running backlogs of tasks and had no other approach at the time that could sustain the work overnight and beyond. 110
