Comment by jauntywundrkind

7 hours ago

Pi is self modifying, self aware. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/31/pi/

But this idea of having a task agent & meta agent maybe has wings. Neat submission.

I asked Pi to implement a skill. It was written in TS. Then I ask it to use the skill in two different sessions, none of them can get it working. One has to wrap it with JS and call it. The other has to take the curl commands out of the skill and call them directly. Which is quite smart BTW. But what is the point of making a convoluted TS skill at all?

https://gist.github.com/ontouchstart/40db1244c0ff523f830df1c...

What are the differences wrt Recursive Language Models

  • Completely unrelated. Recursive Language Models are just "what if we replaced putting all the long text into the context window with a REPL which lets you read parts of the context through tool calls and launch partitioned subagents", ie divide-and-conquer applied to attention space.

    • They also tend to imply symbolic recursion which seems to be the biggest deal out of everything by a wide margin.

      When you can nest 10+ agents deep and guarantee you will get back home without losing any data in any of the stack frames, the ability to chunk through complex problems goes up dramatically.