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      {
        "n": 1,
        "title": "THE LOOP.",
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      },
      {
        "n": 2,
        "title": "WHILE YOU SETTLE IN .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#2"
      },
      {
        "n": 3,
        "title": "YOU USE ONE EVERY DAY. YOU CANNOT SEE INSIDE IT .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#3"
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      {
        "n": 4,
        "title": "PLAN, ACT, OBSERVE, REPEAT .",
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        "n": 5,
        "title": "A TURN IS REASON, THEN ACT, THEN SEE THE RESULT .",
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        "n": 6,
        "title": "FOUR MOVING PARTS. NOTHING ELSE .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#6"
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      {
        "n": 7,
        "title": "THE WHILE-LOOP HARNESS .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#7"
      },
      {
        "n": 8,
        "title": "GIVE THE MODEL HANDS .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#8"
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        "n": 9,
        "title": "RUN THE CALL, FEED THE RESULT BACK .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#9"
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        "n": 10,
        "title": "KNOWING WHEN TO QUIT .",
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        "n": 11,
        "title": "THE HARD PART NOBODY SHOWS YOU .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#11"
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      {
        "n": 12,
        "title": "SAME SHAPE AS THE BIG TOOLS .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#12"
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      {
        "n": 13,
        "title": "SAME LOOP, DIFFERENT WIRE .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#13"
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        "n": 14,
        "title": "WHERE IT BREAKS, AND WHERE YOU STAY IN THE LOOP .",
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        "n": 15,
        "title": "WHAT YOU NOW HAVE WORKING .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#15"
      },
      {
        "n": 16,
        "title": "WHAT YOUR TICKET INCLUDES .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#16"
      },
      {
        "n": 17,
        "title": "WHERE THESE SHAPES CAME FROM .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#17"
      },
      {
        "n": 18,
        "title": "KEEP BUILDING WITH VCN .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#18"
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      {
        "n": 19,
        "title": "STOP TREATING YOUR AGENT AS A BLACK BOX .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#19"
      },
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        "n": 20,
        "title": "YOU BUILT THE ENGINE. HERE IS THE CAR.",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#20"
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        "n": 21,
        "title": "STEER THE LOOP YOU ARE ALREADY IN .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#21"
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      {
        "n": 22,
        "title": "GIVE THE LOOP A FINISH LINE IT CANNOT FAKE .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#22"
      },
      {
        "n": 23,
        "title": "THEN PUT THE LOOP AROUND IT .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#23"
      },
      {
        "n": 24,
        "title": "MAKE THE LOOP REFUSE TO STOP .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#24"
      },
      {
        "n": 25,
        "title": "FIVE ANSWERS. ONE OF THEM DOES NOTHING.",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#25"
      },
      {
        "n": 26,
        "title": "EXACTLY TWO THINGS CAN WAKE A LOOP .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#26"
      },
      {
        "n": 27,
        "title": "EVERYTHING SO FAR DIES WHEN YOU CLOSE THE TERMINAL .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#27"
      },
      {
        "n": 28,
        "title": "MANY LOOPS, AND THE SAME WAY TWICE .",
        "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/#28"
      }
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  "setup": {
    "description": "Agent-readable setup guide: install the SDK, wire the client to the workshop gateway, and run the loop skeleton before doors.",
    "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app/setup.txt"
  },
  "publisher": {
    "author": "Rayyan Zahid",
    "organization": "Vibe Coding Nights",
    "url": "https://vcn-44-the-loop.vercel.app"
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  "event": {
    "series": "Vibe Coding Nights",
    "number": 44,
    "season": "Off the Leash",
    "theme": "The Loop - build the agent loop from scratch",
    "date": "2026-07-25",
    "venue": "Frontier Tower, 9th Floor Annex, 995 Market St, San Francisco",
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  "hosts": [
    "Rayyan Zahid",
    "Michalis Vasileiadis",
    "Eric Mockler",
    "Devinder Sodhi"
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    {
      "title": "Anthropic tool use",
      "url": "https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/tool-use/overview"
    },
    {
      "title": "ReAct (Yao et al., ICLR 2023)",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629"
    },
    {
      "title": "Nebius Token Factory",
      "url": "https://docs.tokenfactory.nebius.com"
    },
    {
      "title": "OpenAI function calling",
      "url": "https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/function-calling"
    }
  ],
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    "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0"
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