Fork-and-Flush: helping research agents escape idea basins
DimitrisPapail · x · 2026-10-13
DimitrisPapail proposes 'Fork-and-Flush': modeling auto-research as idea descent where agents get tunnel vision and fixate on one type of idea, like gradient descent stuck in a local minimum — the trick forks and flushes context to help them escape the basin.
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