Stop prompting. Start looping. A practical five-minute loop engineering walkthrough for Claude Code and OpenClaw builders.
Walkthroughs, demos, and honest reviews — the same things I fix on 1:1 calls, recorded.
Stop prompting. Start looping. A five-minute walkthrough of the loop pattern behind useful Claude Code and OpenClaw workflows.
Run DeepSeek V4 Flash (284B/13B MoE, ~80GB at Q4) as a fully local coding agent on a 128GB Mac Studio using the ds4 engine — top SWE-Bench quality with no API key.
The best 128GB Mac setup is a workload split, not a single model: gpt-oss 120B for production agents, Llama 4 Scout for long context, DeepSeek-class for coding — backed by 97 Reddit replies.
Heartbeat fix, subscription vs API, model routing, session resets, cloud scheduling. Cut $36K/year to $5-10K for a team of 10.
What NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang meant by an OpenClaw strategy and an agentic system strategy.
Install Ollama, pull Qwen 3.5 27B, configure OpenClaw, and run your first local agent conversation with zero monthly cost.
Provision a Lightsail instance, install OpenClaw with Docker, configure the gateway, and get your first agent response.
Honest review after weeks of daily use: what works, what is overhyped, and the one workflow that made it worth it.
