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One thing I would like is a tree-like chat structure like reddit / HN. Many times I abandon the direction things have gone but would like to resume at some ance

One thing I would like is a tree-like chat structure like reddit / HN. Many times I abandon the direction things have gone but would like to resume at some ancestor or sibling response.

BikiniPrince 17d ago
I solved this with task management and got work trees. The downside of course is branching in got, but I usually don’t go of course more then a handful of tasks. I had to engineer my own ticket management to keep opus on target. It’s been great for managing work, history, audit trails and commits are tagged with the task id. I implemented subtasks to deal with the way Claude likes to stage its own objectives. Then I made enforcement logic in the task manager so tasks can’t be closed out until reviewers have consensus on the same sha. The adhd that is Anthropic demanded I build it and now I’m knocking out issues faster than Batman.
drivebyhooting 17d ago
Yes this would be very useful. Or at least being able to selectively compact a linear part and continue from before. Often times I just sort of wish to undo.
whythismatters 17d ago
I'm not affiliated, and did not actually try it, but your comment reminded me of the juggler coding agent, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883305 >Each conversation is a Yjs CRDT tree. It can branch into sub-threads (recursively), and you can drill down, backtrack, edit, undo/redo, and inspect everything: tool calls, approvals, and the raw context JSON going to the model, etc.
jobigoud 17d ago
You can do that right now in ChatGPT? Every answer has a "Branch in new chat" button. You can go back to any point and branch again.
adrianmonk 17d ago
Gemini has something kind of like this. In a chat, click on the "..." icon next to one of Gemini's responses and select "Branch in new chat". It creates a new chat which has the conversation up to that point and a link to the conversation you branched it from. The UI isn't tree-like, though. It's more like Git where each branch name is just mixed in with the rest of the soup of references.
- AshleyGrant 17d ago
  GitHub Copilot in VS Code has a similar feature to "Fork" a conversation at any point in its history.

One thing I would like is a tree-like chat structure like reddit / HN. Many times I abandon the direction things have gone but would like to resume at some ancestor or sibling response.

BikiniPrince 17d ago

I solved this with task management and got work trees. The downside of course is branching in got, but I usually don’t go of course more then a handful of tasks. I had to engineer my own ticket management to keep opus on target. It’s been great for managing work, history, audit trails and commits are tagged with the task id. I implemented subtasks to deal with the way Claude likes to stage its own objectives. Then I made enforcement logic in the task manager so tasks can’t be closed out until reviewers have consensus on the same sha. The adhd that is Anthropic demanded I build it and now I’m knocking out issues faster than Batman.

drivebyhooting 17d ago

Yes this would be very useful. Or at least being able to selectively compact a linear part and continue from before. Often times I just sort of wish to undo.

whythismatters 17d ago

I'm not affiliated, and did not actually try it, but your comment reminded me of the juggler coding agent, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883305 >Each conversation is a Yjs CRDT tree. It can branch into sub-threads (recursively), and you can drill down, backtrack, edit, undo/redo, and inspect everything: tool calls, approvals, and the raw context JSON going to the model, etc.

jobigoud 17d ago

You can do that right now in ChatGPT? Every answer has a "Branch in new chat" button. You can go back to any point and branch again.

adrianmonk 17d ago

Gemini has something kind of like this. In a chat, click on the "..." icon next to one of Gemini's responses and select "Branch in new chat". It creates a new chat which has the conversation up to that point and a link to the conversation you branched it from. The UI isn't tree-like, though. It's more like Git where each branch name is just mixed in with the rest of the soup of references.

AshleyGrant 17d ago
GitHub Copilot in VS Code has a similar feature to "Fork" a conversation at any point in its history.