The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat

Re:The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat by philipwhiuk on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @12:22PM (#48909201)

Aren't the loops the wrong way round in the diagram. The tightest loop is the inference loop, then the tool loop and then human loop?

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Re:The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat by btables on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @12:23PM (#48909227)

I think of them from the outside in, so that's why I illustrated it that way.

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Re:The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat by NitpickLawyer on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @03:01PM (#48911531)

Fascinating. I think it's the first time I've heard it put that way.

For me it's more intuitive the other way around, as the "outer" loops increase in complexity (and can have additional separate loops running inside them). It also makes sense because you can always add more (meta) loops that way.

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Re:The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat by DonHopkins on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @01:11PM (#48909979)

You are absolutely correct. It's an i18n/l10n issue. They spin in the opposite direction in the other hemisphere.

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Re:The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat by saghm on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @04:15PM (#48912424)

Oh no, what happens when I flush my agents from one hemisphere down the toilet in the other then?

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Re:The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat by BeetleB on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:32PM (#48913194)

Not true. This is a common LLM hallucination.

See https://www.britannica.com/story/do-toilets-in-different-hem...

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Re:The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat by DonHopkins on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @12:42PM (#48923532)

Of course they hallucinate. They are spinning backwards!

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