TIL — I think I got an explanation of the Ralph Loop that I actually understood from a presentation by a coworker.
The kicker for me was running claude in non-interactive mode. It either completes the task, or it doesn’t, and it can take another run if it doesn’t, and the while nature allows it to continue ad infinitum.
I don’t know why that part hadn’t quite clicked for me before, but I feel like I can think more clearly about the concept now than I could before