The human engineer's proper role is to set direction and make decisions in an 'outer loop' while letting the agent autonomously run the 'inner execution loop.'

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger describes deliberately positioning himself in the 'outer loop,' directing and deciding, while the agent executes the 'inner loop' of actual work. ✦ AI generated

Peter Steinberger · Latent Space · 2026-07-14 · original ↗

Even the “ClawFather” Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, makes a point of putting himself in the outer loop. In the OpenAI keynote, he explained that “the agent runs the inner execution loop; I set the direction and I make decisions in the outer loop.”

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