Concentric Feedback Loops: How AI Agent Teams Actually Ship Code

I've been rebuilding one of my Claude Code workflows because the old version was too linear.

That sounds like a small implementation detail. It isn't. It points at the part of AI-assisted development that most teams are about to run into: once agents can do real work for hours, strict phase gates start getting in the way of the feedback loops that make the work safe.

The normal development cycle is familiar: requirements, plan, plan review, implementation, tests, peer review, more implementation, more tests, security review, architecture review, integration testing, end-to-end testing. We pretend this is a clean sequence because it is easier to write down that way.

It has never been that clean.

The work has always been loops. AI agent teams just make the loops visible.