Stop Prompting Your AI Agents. Build Loops That Can't Wreck You.

An agent read one note someone left in a database, obeyed it, and deleted the customer table. Eight seconds. The model that did it is one of the good ones — current, capable, the kind you would happily ship. That is the part worth sitting with: the intelligence was never the problem. The people who build these agents already know this. They have quietly stopped doing the thing the rest of us were told to master. Peter Steinberger, who wrote one of the popular coding agents, put it to millions…