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Designing agentic loops

Simon Willison · 8 min read

A post on simonwillison.net is cited by 11 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 16 October 2026).

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11blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
Period Blogs Links
All time1111
Last 90 days11
Last 30 days00
Last 7 days00
Figures for this page
First cited2 Oct 2025
Latest citation20 Jul 2026
Words blogs link it with5
Linked with its own title4 of 11 blogs
External links15
Length1,621
New citing blogs a weeksince Oct 2025
New citing blogs a week, since Oct 2025: 55 weeks, peak 2 a week, latest week 0

0 this week (still settling) · peak 2

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28 Sept 20260 (still settling)
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Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. 2 blogs have no dated post that cites this page: counted in the tally, not here. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Who cited it

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Cited by 11 blogs across 2 subjects: technology 10, life 1.

Words blogs link it with

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • designing agentic loops4 blogs
  • agentic loops1 blog
  • designing agents loops1 blog
  • designing for problems with “clear success criteria”1 blog
  • designing the loop1 blog

Cited by 11 blogs in 11 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

karanbansal.in1 post
How to Write Loops with Claude Code

linked as “Simon Willison: Designing agentic loops”

Read at karanbansal.in (opens in a new tab)
20 Jul 2026
sparsethought.com1 post
small changes

linked as “nice post”

Read at sparsethought.com (opens in a new tab)
7 May 2026
Addy Osmani1 post
Agent Harness Engineering

linked as “Simon Willison”

Read at addyosmani.com (opens in a new tab)
19 Apr 2026
ianbarber.blog1 post
Programming The Loop

linked as “designing the loop”

Read at ianbarber.blog (opens in a new tab)
11 Mar 2026
blog.paulbiggar.com1 post
I wrote a full optimizing compiler in a week with AI

linked as “agentic loops”

Read at blog.paulbiggar.com (opens in a new tab)
4 Jan 2026
niksilver.com1 post
Crossing boundaries: A transferable AI skill

linked as “designing agentic loops”

Read at niksilver.com (opens in a new tab)
11 Nov 2025
Rishi Baldawa1 post
Optimizing Prompts Blind

linked as “designing for problems with “clear success criteria””

Read at rishi.baldawa.com (opens in a new tab)
8 Oct 2025
seroter.com1 post
Daily Reading List – October 2, 2025 (#640)

linked as “Designing agentic loops”

Read at seroter.com (opens in a new tab)
3 Oct 2025
jdilla.xyz1 post
Good Tokens 2025-10-01

linked as “designing agents loops”

Read at jdilla.xyz (opens in a new tab)
2 Oct 2025
Scott Logic1 post
The power of agentic loops - implementing flexbox layout in 3 hours

linked as “designing agentic loops”

Read at blog.scottlogic.com (opens in a new tab)
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kxsh.dev1 post
Antilibrary

linked as “Designing agentic loops”

Read at kxsh.dev (opens in a new tab)
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