Ralph Loop

A bash loop that keeps spawning fresh AI agent instances — one task at a time — until every item in a spec is complete. Progress lives on disk and in git, not in the model's context window. Each iteration starts clean, so there's no context overflow or lossy compaction.

Named after Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons. Coined by Geoffrey Huntley in 2025. The technique went viral because it's absurdly simple and it works: a while-loop, a spec file, and an AI coding agent. That's it.