Your First AI Loop Should Be for Yourself (Template Included)
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Cathryn Lavery
Summary
The article discusses how the author's terminal usage (Claude Code, Codex) has become a record of their workflow habits. They share a template for creating personal AI loops to mine sessions for content ideas, tool fixes, skills, hooks, and safer self-improvement. The piece emphasizes that before building AI loops for others or for products, developers should first build one for themselves to understand their own patterns and improve their workflow.
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