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Claude basically does this now (including deciding when to use subagents, tools, and agent teams). I built a similar thing a month ago and saw the writing on the wall.

I agree, Claude does spawn subagents but subagents don't spawn sub-subagents.

This is the interesting constraint though. Have you found going deeper than 2 levels actually helps? Every time I've let agents spawn recursively the quality at depth 3+ drops off a cliff. Not because the model is dumber, the accumulated context drift means the deep child is solving a slightly different problem than what the root intended. Curious if your tree structure has a natural depth limit in practice or if it scales.

Are you sure? In Opencode they can, but it's hard to track them then (say, if you want to steer them) -- you have to click through. It would be nice to have a dynamic execution graph alongside the text.

This is the comment I was looking for. In the last month or so this is how Claude Code represents tasks, as a DAG of objectives, built from plan mode.

Yeah exactly. I noticed Claude start doing exactly this a month ago too. It recursively breaks problems down while allowing you to either change direction at each level or keep going. This is where claude jumped up to be legitimately better at solving real world problems than a substantial amount of developers. I can only assume the other AI companies are just going to copy the approach shortly too.

I think the native Claude and Codex apps already do this for free. They even have the voice input.


They currently don't have the ability to use a local session from your phone, and they only have voice input, not voice input and output for completely hands free usage.


> They currently don't have the ability to use a local session from your phone…

Claude Code will help you set this up using tmux. Voice input and output personally seems like a gimmick, but OS accessibilty features should work fine for this.


Voice input + output sounds gimmicky (as I admit in the post), but it's quite useful for mobile coding. It's not as trivial as just printing out whatever Claude Code outputs.

"Claude Code will help you set this up using tmux" - I don't think that you can connect to tmux sessions running in Claude Code/Codex remote VMs using their mobile apps. Their mobile apps don't provide a terminal emulator afaik


> Their mobile apps don't provide a terminal emulator afaik

Right, this requires using a terminal app.


> Voice input and output personally seems like a gimmick

Nice to have when cooking and I want to use my laptop without wiping my hands dry constantly.


That 10yr per grid scale battery estimate seems high since we have built many grid scale batteries as well as millions of EVs in recent history.


We have many grid stabilization batteries. There are 0 grid scale backup systems. 1 year of worldwide Li-ion battery production could backup just California for about 90 minutes.


There are virtually zero singular grid scale power systems these days. It is a mix of CCGT, Solar, Wind and Nuclear.


If all goes as assumed in this thread, there will be more taxes because there will be higher profit margins at the corporate level.


Should we be porting our Python projects over to Javascript?


These can both be true. But, maybe in this case it's just a scam.


Even if he did make the money he claims, he is selling the idea that "you too can make money by exposing all your users private info."


Why is it not smart?


The classical answer would be RCA, who famously bought Carpetland, Banquet Foods, and Hertz car rental, and was bequeathed the moniker "Rugs, Chickens, and Automobiles" by the investment community.

Buying a stake in Nokia is admittedly different than taking it over and managing it, but the danger there is very clear. Distracted management that strays away from core competence can easily kill the golden goose driving revenue.

The contrarian view is that Berkshire Hathaway is able to hold an array of successful manufacturing and service businesses (Kirby vacuum cleaners, Dairy Queen, Clayton Homes, and the prominent Sees Candy) without losing management control of GEICO and their other insurance holdings.

Hopefully, Nvidia sees the example of RCA and Gulf Western, and will not lose focus on their core competence.

RCA famously birthed the semiconductor industry in Taiwan. I think that focused trade regulation would prevent a repeat of that event in modern times.

Edit: It appears that RCA bought Coronet Carpets, not Carpetland.


There were two nots


Would be crazy if a country made Bitcoin to weather sanctions or other economic interventions.


Try Aerospace. Completely solved window management for me.

Also for dev, set up your desired environment in a native container and then just remote into it with your terminal of choice. (Personally recommend Ghostty with Zellij or Tmux)


What are your differing use cases for each editor?


My work setup is simply too complex and uses too many plugins to work in Helix as of now.

For all personal work and just quick text editing I use Helix. If I could use Helix for everything I would


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