Looks like Anthropic themselves are starting to include autonomous agents supervision trees in Claude code. The last release announcement says that a session can spawn others (that you can interact with) and that sessions can message their spawner but also message each other.
I can’t help but wonder if Greenspun’s tenth law (Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortranprogram contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.) should be complemented by another law for our very connected age, since every app that grows for a while seems to develop an ad-hoc actor model.
Since they sell tokens it only seems logical to encourage bigger agent structures. Too bad it’s not built on the platform that supports it by design, it would have been some kind of spotlight for the BEAM.
