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kimjune01yesterday at 4:20 PM1 replyview on HN

The criticism about the labeling is valid and I oversold. For clarity, this is what the agent sees:

`spawn`: "Create a spawned child node under your node."

`fork`: "Create a forked child node (inherits parent context) under your node."

The novelty is less about the distinction between the two, it's the tree generation. I would have served you better, if I just left out the parts that aren't critical to the novelty. Thank you for taking the time to comment.


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mpalmeryesterday at 4:31 PM

And thanks for taking the criticism.

In all honesty, "would have written it myself but I was too eager to get it out the door" doesn't really make sense to me. You're acknowledging that you took a shortcut to get it out the door (blog post as tech debt is a new one!) - does that mean you'd like to write something up yourself eventually?

I hope so, and would like to read it. In particular, since this is presented as research, I'd be very interested to read about your experimental observations that show the risks/costs/edge cases/limits of this pattern. As it stands, there's no indication of self-critique or really any process of systematic evaluation of the solution.

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