Looping a Looping Loop

Hi there,

The past few weeks I've finally had a bit of time to step back and drag our company up to the bleeding edge of what AI can actually do.

The best way I've found to describe that edge is loops. There are four levels to loops, we're at three.

If that means nothing to you yet, I'll explain below.

What I'm Seeing in AI

Wtf is a Loop

If you think about using AI normally - You send a prompt, it responds, you interpret the result, and repeat. It’s a loop.

This is Level 1. There are four levels, and each one wraps around the last:

Level 1: It does a task you give it. Normal AI use, fancier name.
Level 2: A second pass marks the AI output and sends it back to try again, until the result is correct.
Level 3: AI finds its own work to do, then runs level two on what it finds.
Level 4: It runs Level 3, but after each iteration improves its own system based on the result.

Essentially, if you can make a deterministic test that AI can check against, it can run a loop on it.

A Little Lab Update

Despite the problems in AI still being hard, OpenAI and Anthropic are still doing everything but working on them it seems.

OpenAI folded coding, work and chat into one "super app", and most people hated it.

The New ChatGPT app

It points out to me that the news and hype is so different to what is actually happening. The news shows a new app design, but on the ground, people are figuring out how to automate entire business functions.

What I'm Building

Loop Level Three 😎

I’ve just about finished our Master AI dashboard, that watches our whole suite of agents and live projects for issues.

When one of them breaks - It automatically goes off and repairs them. Houston we’ve reached level three baby.

I find it interesting that I saw this problem and built it for us without having heard about the levels of loops, but looking back I realised I was working on the same thing everyone else was.

Our Products mapped to the Levels of Loops

Why It Should Stay Hard

If you think about it - If an entire company reaches a Level 4 Loop, what are humans even doing anymore?

My initial thinking was that we’ll all be chilling on the beach. At that point though, we go from accelerating our own output, to being replaced. All of the ‘AI’s gonna take your job’ press flagged this over the past few years, but in reality, we are a long, long way from that.

The value is constantly moving up the loop, and so are we.

If you take one thing from this, try to move yourself up to level two this week.

Instead of asking AI to do something once, give it a target and let it keep going until it hits it. Not "find me accommodation in Brisbane", but "keep looking for accommodation in Brisbane until you find one under $200 a night, walking distance to the river, free cancellation". Make it check its own work against your bar.