AIEWF Daily Dispatch: The great loops debate and the state of AI engineering The AI Engineer World’s Fair ended with a debate about loops, a report on the state of AI engineering, and closing keynotes focused on what to build next. One of the highlights of the final day of the AI Engineer World’s Fair was a debate about loops. It nicely captured an argument running through the whole conference: are autonomous software factories viable now, or is the engineering discipline lagging behind the ambition? Allie Howe from Keycard was the moderator and she opened by asking, “is there or is there not