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Be in the loop once. Then you can be on it, or out of it.
It's the end of the week and I had tokens to burn.
So I left Claude running a self-improvement loop this afternoon and went out to color.
Oh yeah, I've got into coloring lately.
Most people working with AI are babysitting it.
One prompt, wait, watch, next prompt. Stuck in the loop.
Every output needs you, right now, watching.
But the work isn't the prompting. The work is the workflow.
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Build it once and the shape changes:
- In the loop: you design the process, set the gates, define what good looks like.
- On the loop: it runs in the background. You check at the gates and redirect when needed.
- Out of the loop: it runs without you. You start another Claude session, or you go and color.
The loop I left running today didn't need me. I'd already done the part that needed me.
That's the whole trick. Pay the attention up front, once, on the system. Then the system buys it back. You free up the time for another session, or for a life.
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You don't scale by prompting faster. You scale by being in the loop once and building workflows.
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Be in the loop once. Then you can be on it, or out of it.
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