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Inner Loop Latency
The time from changing a line to observing its effect, repeated dozens of times a day and therefore the highest-leverage number in developer experience.
Agent Loop
The cycle in which a model observes state, selects an action, executes a tool and observes the result, repeating until a goal or a limit is reached.
Feedback Loop
A circular causal chain in which an effect influences its own cause, producing behaviour that cannot be understood by examining components in isolation.
Human in the Loop
Requiring human review or approval at a defined point in an automated flow, chosen by the reversibility and cost of the action.
Reconciliation Loop
A controller that continuously compares declared state with actual state and acts to close the gap, replacing deployment as an event with convergence as a property.
Automation Bias
The tendency of a human reviewer to accept a system's output rather than evaluate it, which is what turns human oversight into a rubber stamp.
Escalation Threshold
The rule determining when a model's output is acted on automatically and when it is routed to a person.
Join Strategies
The three ways a database combines two row sets — nested loop, hash join and merge join — and the conditions under which each is correct.
Inner Loop & Outer Loop
Where an engineer's time actually goes, and which loop a platform investment shortens.
Human in the Loop
Gating by reversibility and blast radius, and avoiding approval fatigue.
Human-in-the-Loop Design
Meaningful review rather than a rubber stamp, and designing against automation bias.
Kubernetes
The reconciliation loop, and whether the workload needs what it provides.