Were Recursive Language Models Hype or the Real Fix? Devs Revisit the Faded RLM Idea
AdventurousFly4909 · reddit · 2026-10-13
A Reddit thread asks whether Recursive Language Models (RLMs) were a fad: hyped a while ago, now barely mentioned. RLMs use an orchestrator plus sub-agents sharing a Python environment — outputs land in variables, sub-agents can spawn sub-agents recursively — with the goal of minimizing tokens entering the orchestrator's context. The author sees it as a natural fix for runaway context/compaction in tools like opencode, yet it's absent from harness discussions. Repo: alexzhang13/rlm.
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