The PAOVR Loop: The Real Agent Loop That Actually Finishes Jobs
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Plan → Act → Observe → Verify → Repair Stop building agents that narrate completion. Start building systems that prove it. In 2026 the conversation finally moved past “prompt engineering is dead.” What replaced it is quieter, harder, and far more useful: loop engineering. Most agents still fail the same way. They generate a confident final answer, declare victory, and leave the human to discover that half the work was invented, skipped, or never checked. We’ve all watched an agent burn five d