Show HN: LoopGain – Stop agent loops with control theory, not max_iterations

Re:Show HN: LoopGain – Stop agent loops with control theory,... by lochnessduck on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:09PM (#48926426)

To the author (Dave): have some faith in your voice. If you can’t describe the project as well as the AI (because you vibe coded it), then take a dang hour to ask the AI how it works and do a proper write up without copy pasting. Nobody is going to bother otherwise; it’s too obviously AI generated.

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Re:Show HN: LoopGain – Stop agent loops with control theory,... by fitz2882 on Saturday July 18, 2026 @02:06PM (#48960553)

Hey, thanks for your comment. This is an idea that I thought up, researched, developed, and in the end built a useful, working, open source tool. Yes I used AI to assist me in the process, it's a complicated subject. But I take your point that it would be better to write in my own words. You're right, lesson learned.

Anyhow, whether I used a tool like AI to assist me or not, I am here to share something I built that I hope others will find useful. I am building what I am passionate about.

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Re:Show HN: LoopGain – Stop agent loops with control theory,... by stephantul on Sunday July 19, 2026 @09:06AM (#48967903)

I don’t think this is the right take-away though.

Your fully generated project description makes people lose faith in the actual project. If you went through the trouble of writing the whole code yourself, why generate the comment presenting it to the public wholesale.

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Re:Show HN: LoopGain – Stop agent loops with control theory,... by N_Lens on Sunday July 19, 2026 @09:45AM (#48968181)

He’s passionate about using AI!

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Re:Show HN: LoopGain – Stop agent loops with control theory,... by Terretta on Friday July 17, 2026 @12:38PM (#48949342)

Fitz, Dave, whoever is "here" ...

What prompt are you using to generate this exact form of thing?

Problem history story...

Everyone's doing it wrong...

Proof of claims ...

Abstract ...

"Honest" bustedness ...

Keyword stuffing ...

Call for feedback ...

"What I'd really love from Dave:" is what's causing this particular structure. What model/harness/agent are you using, whether automated or pasting it yourself?

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Re:Show HN: LoopGain – Stop agent loops with control theory,... by fitz2882 on Saturday July 18, 2026 @02:07PM (#48960561)

Hey, please see my response to lochnessduck, thanks

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Re:Show HN: LoopGain – Stop agent loops with control theory,... by gavmor on Sunday July 19, 2026 @12:29PM (#48969514)

I've got an application for this. Will try and get some benchmarks in the next few weeks. We're definitely attempting to converge on a quality inference without wasting tokens/time.

For now, we're passing the first pass to the humans, and that's roughly 80 for 20, but to get the last 20 without blowing up our token spend? This might be the approach.

Thanks for the write up comment, btw.

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Re:Show HN: LoopGain – Stop agent loops with control theory,... by fitz2882 on Sunday July 19, 2026 @03:19PM (#48970932)

Hey gavmor, thanks for your comment! Let me know if you need any assistance, I would be happy to help or get any feedback at [email protected]

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