Running more scanning agents exponentially is an interesting proposition as we scale to massive, continuously growing tasks. In my initial experimentations with

Running more scanning agents exponentially is an interesting proposition as we scale to massive, continuously growing tasks. In my initial experimentations with well-defined tasks, the overhead has not been worth diving into yet, since latency has been low enough. It would turn a slow search into a highly parallelised "MapReduce" problem. You trade a brief, massive burst of machine execution to keep wall-clock latency incredibly low for the human waiting at the top. A tree structure means these scanning agents don’t just run wild. High-level nodes could aggressively prune entire branches the moment a scanning agent reports a dead end.