@s4yonnara: You're using AI agents like it's 2024. There are 5 levels and most people never leave the first. Boris Cherny, the crea…

You’re using AI agents like it’s 2024. There are 5 levels and most people never leave the first.

Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, says he barely prompts it anymore. Loops prompt it. His job is to build the loops.

Level 1. Prompting. You type, read, type again. You are the loop.

Level 2. Manual loop. Do, check, fix, repeat, all by hand. Still you turning the crank.

Level 3. Verified loop. You define “done” and a separate check enforces it. The doer never grades itself.

Level 4. Self-running loop. Set a goal, it runs across turns on its own until it holds. That’s the /goal primitive in Claude Code.

Level 5. Autonomous agents. Loops that start themselves, run in parallel, and write their own lessons back. You stop running an agent and start running an organization of them.

The catch nobody mentions. The agent that did the work is the worst judge of whether it’s done. Every level up rests on something separate that can say no.

Most people are stuck low for one reason. Nobody told them the ladder exists.

Find your rung. Climb.

Full breakdown in the article below.

every level up rests on something that can actually say no. you nailed the core of it

appreciate it bro, glad the ladder made sense