SITUATION EXPLAINED: Where did the idea behind today's AI coding agents come from?
We asked
@karan4d, co-founder of
@NousResearch, to trace the lineage.
"WorldSim was an experiment to show you can break out the assistant format, the base model has a much greater search space than its instruct counterpart."
"That increased ability to ask more questions, ponder more options, simulate more possibilities gets lost through instruct tuning."
"The simulated terminal with simulated apps eventually turned into WebSim, people simulating whole real websites."
"Today, Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, Claude Code, they are the successor to WorldSim in that sense."