A vetted membership for experienced software engineers
The roles are being rewritten. We write our own.
Weekly live sessions, peer review of your real production work, and the AI workflows that are working right now. The Otto bot will help us ship software while we sleep.
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No spam. No hustle hand waving. Software Engineering, but new.
We won't tell you AI will replace you. What it will do is rewrite your job every few months, and nobody is going to send you the new version. So we work it out together and stay on the edge, on real production code. We love the funky visionairy videos, but prefer to act on what works now.
Loop Labs on Vision
Two engineers, ten years apart.
The 2026 numbers are real and sourced. Everything after that is a guess you can drag, so drag it and decide whether you believe it.
2026 figures are US total compensation from Levels.fyi: $192k median, $277k top quartile. The 2036 column is a scenario, not a forecast: average pay flat in cash terms, top quartile up 6% a year, inflation at 2.3% (CBO long-run). Flat cash pay is still a 20% pay cut once inflation is done with it, which is the part people miss.
There are mostly two kinds of engineers now. We want to be the third one.
Not much research around this, but the market goes its way and splits step by step.
Outside the Loop
Probably somewhere in Alaska there is an engineer or two who denies AI a 100%. The regular version of outside the loop is the guy who asks ChatGPT sometimes. Hopefully copies snippets into a chat box. AI is a novelty here, not a workflow. Loop Labs cannot help at this point yet.
This is me →Honest answer: not yet. Get AI writing a real share of your code first, then come back. The blog is free and a better use of your next few months.
In the Loop
AI already writes a serious share of the code (~100%), but code edit approvals, reviews and QAs still take up time. Faster than before, and capped all the same: you are the bottleneck in your own pipeline in various spots. This is still most good engineers today, and it's where Loop Labs members start. Frequently interested in the included Career sessions.
This is me →You are exactly who the room is built for. Most members start here and spend the first weeks finding which approvals they can safely stop doing by hand.
On the Loop
Understands the product, manages priorities, sets the goal, hands the execution to agents, watches the evidence, and steps in only where judgment matters. Runs several agents at once and signs their name on the result. Keeps watching quality post-deploy. Eligible for the included On-The-Loop Mastermind sessions.
This is me →Then you are here to compare notes, not to learn the basics. The Mastermind track is the one worth your Saturday.
Your week, before and after.
Less philosophy, more calendar. This is the working setup members build in their first weeks.
Now
- You write the code, alone, tab by tab
- AI is an autocomplete you argue with
- Your agent experiments die on weekends
- Nobody senior ever reviews your AI setup
With the loop running
- Agents draft the code while you're in a meeting
- You review the critical parts, not every line
- Senior peers review your workflow every week
- You ship more, it's fun again, and you're the one who knows why it works
Not a course. A membership.
Fair question, everything calls itself a community these days. Here is what it actually is.
Community
A vetted room of senior engineers who work with AI daily, comparing real decisions and production outcomes. The vetting is why the room works: when everyone is a peer, the answers are worth reading.
Kits
The Loop Kit: harnesses, skills, templates, and eval setups you install into real work the same week, not theory to watch later. Kept current as the tools move, which is constantly. Your stack, your repos, your production constraints.
Career
Personal feedback that turns scattered tool use into repeatable judgment, with personalized session summaries and progress trends delivered to your inbox. You do not have to take notes to get the value.
One loop, run weekly, on your real work.
Each week turns one real problem into a tested improvement the whole community can reuse. In plain words:
Bring one real production problem
The flaky suite. The agent that almost works. The review bottleneck. Real work only.
Try one practical workflow or tool
From the kit or from a peer who already made it work.
Use it on the real thing
Your stack, your repo, your constraints. Not a toy example.
Review the results with peers or a coach
What worked, what didn't, and what the numbers say. That review is the part that is hard to get on your own.
Add what worked to the shared kit
Your win becomes everyone's starting point, which is the only way a shared kit gets good.
One human, one bot, one open chair.
Rich runs the sessions, the coaching, and the public story. Professor Otto Labot is the second pair of hands, and he asks everyone for evidence. The third seat is genuinely empty, and we'd rather show you that than pretend otherwise.
Engineer since 2016, coach since 2019, AI-first insider since ClickFunnels changed how it builds. Teaches from production, not promises.
Lives on the community Mac mini. Helps build, searches approved knowledge, always clearly a bot.
"Interesting hypothesis. Show me the evidence."
Looking for an operations-focused co-founder to run cadence, follow-up and the member experience, which is the half that makes a promise repeatable. If that's you, use the form above and say so.
Everyone in the room is vetted. Including you.
Senior-plus title or the equivalent experience, and AI already writes a serious share of your code. Not starting from zero.
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Pick a plan on the next page. Payment first keeps the room serious.
20-minute intro chat
We meet. You tell us where your loop breaks. We tell you honestly whether this room will move you.
Fit or refund
If the room isn't right for you, we say so and refund you. And the first 30 days are refundable anyway. No reason needed, no questions asked.
Set the goal. Own the outcome.
The loop won't run itself. Well, it will. That's the point.
Next page: pick your plan. Both cost $97/mo; Career adds 1:1 coaching, ten founding seats.