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In a scaffolded parent-child agent setup, a child that does not understand its task or needs clarification must either return to ask the parent or assume what the parent intended and continue solving the task.
Noam Brown · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“don't have that setup and adding it just increases the complexity significantly to the scaffold that you have another thing is like what if the child doesn't really understand or has a clarification question so it has to choose then between okay do I just return and ask the question instead of giving instead of solving the problem or do I solve the problem just like make an assumption about what the parent wanted me to do and and just solve it that way”Play from 10:25Report a misattribution
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