Loosely Coupled Thoughts — quotations

Quoting Matt Van Horn

2026-06-29T08:25:20.106184+12:00

An open loop that writes code with no feedback is a machine for generating confident mistakes. A loop that writes, runs, reads the result, and corrects is the thing that actually works. The loop is not the magic. The feedback inside it is.

— Matt Van Horn

Quoting Ryan Lopopolo

2026-04-21T21:51:00+12:00

Every company should have a full stack team of 5 building a product who are banned from directly writing code; they must force the agents to do it. In 2 months they will be your most productive team.

— Ryan Lopopolo

Quoting Devansh

2026-04-20T16:48:23.277771+12:00

This is kind of a big deal. The performance difference between Cursor and Claude Code? Or Claude Code and OpenCode? All that comes from the system around the model. That’s why Google can have one of the best models in the market, and still produce the Shakespearean tragedy that is the Gemini CLI. When people say “Mythos found a zero-day,” the truth is more “Mythos, orchestrated by a purpose-built vulnerability research pipeline, found a zero-day.

— Devansh