AI Loop Engineering: Four Loops From a GitHub Issue to a Merged Feature

A few weeks ago I stopped babysitting a pull request and let an agent do it instead. The task was the boring, exhausting kind every team knows. A PR is open, CI runs, something fails, you fix it, you push, you wait ten minutes for CI to come back, and then the next gate fails. Coverage dropped below the threshold. Checkstyle is unhappy. A flaky test failed on retry. The static analysis tool fo...