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- I'm also developing a similar branching interface though mine is structured differently. I hope we can make a dent in the LLM space, best of luck!by isege
- This is an interesting idea. Have you considered allowing different models for different chat nodes? My current very primitive solution is to have AI studio on one side of my screen and ChatGPT on the other, and me in the middle playing them off each other.by djgrant
- Interesting to see a productionized version of this interface!
I wanted to try something like this from a while. Was excited to see maxly.chat's promotion on X but was disappointed it wasn't ready.
On a side note, do you also have zero data retention agreements with the providers?
by chaudharyt - Yea, this really needed to happen. Idk if this specific branching type of interface will stand the test of time, but I'm glad to see people finally braving beyond the basic chat interface (which I think many of us forget was only ever meant to be a demo...yet it remains default and dominant).by cootsnuck
- I tried it, I have tried a very similar but still different use case. I wonder if you have thoughts around how much of this is our own context management vs context management for the LLM. Ideally, I don't want to do any work for the LLM; it should be able to figure out from chat what 'branch' of the tree I'm exploring, and then the artifact is purely for one's own use.by kanodiaayush
- Really cool! I’d want something like this for Claude code or other terminal based tools. Basically when working on code sometimes I already interrupt and resume the same session in multiple terminals so I can explore different pathways at the same time without the parallel sessions polluting one another. Currently this is really clunky in Claude Code.
Anyway, great project! Cheers.
by confusus - Ha! This looks really nice, and I'm right there with you on the context development UX being clunky to navigate.
A couple of weeks ago I built something very very similar, only for Obsidian, using the Obsidian Canvas and OpenRouter as my baseline components. Works really nicely - handles image uploads, autolayout with dagre.js, system prompts, context export to flat files, etc. Think you've inspired me to actually publish the repo :)
by boomskats - Great work! I was just thinking the other day how an interface like this would be useful, it seems strange we don't see more UI attempts beyond basic linear chat.
I find most need for managing context for problem solving. I describe a problem, LLM gives me 5 possible solutions. From those I immediately see 2 of them won't be viable, so I can prune the search. Then it is best to explore the others separately without polluting the context with non-viable solutions.
I saw this problem solving approach described as Tree-based problem management [0]. Often when solving problems there can be some nested problem which can prove to be a blocker and cut off whole branch, so it is effective to explore these first. Another cool attempt was thorny.io [1] (I didn't get to try it, and it is now unfortunately defunct) in which you could mark nodes with metadata like pro/con. Higher nodes would aggregate these which could guide you and give you prioritization which branch to explore next.
Also graph rendering looks cooler, but outliners seem to be more space efficient. I use Logseq, where I apply this tree-based problem solving, but have to copy the context and response back-and-forth manually. Having an outliner view as an alternative for power users would be neat.
[0] https://wp.josh.com/2018/02/11/idea-dump-2018/#:~:text=Tree-... [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20240820171443/http://thorny.io/
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