yeah, thats similar to our current approach. It was inspired by a blog post from anthropic where they talked about the same kinda idea, where iirc after 3 rounds the author is asked to rearchitect.

The only other bit we also stole from that was the idea of only looking for issues in the original diff rather than spawning new problems from each diff fixing the previous. Of course the possibility exists of bugs being introduced while fixing others but we try to handle that with human review for the minute because its not worth getting agents to cover that bit, at least with naive approaches