Prompt Engineering is Dead. Long Live the Agentic Loop.
You used to craft the perfect prompt. Tweak the wording. Add examples. Get a better answer. That era is ending. In 2026, the best AI coding workflows are not about prompts. They are about loops. You give the agent a goal, a test gate, and permission to run. You come back to a completed PR. This article explains how agentic workflows work, what they look like in practice, the risks nobody talks about, and how to set one up properly. ...