Comment by adw
7 hours ago
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.