AI coding: loop engineering a translator

Since a week or two the term 'loop engineering' is coming up after 'prompt engineering' and 'agentic workflow' seem to not cut it anymore and we need more abstractions. The first time I tried to write something which would do something useful with a LLM was about two years ago in December 2024, I wanted to do translation of big documents from Korean to English on my local RTX 3060 with 12 GB VRAM.…