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mixed HN liked the elegance of the tiny Lisp agent, but many commenters pushed back on the novelty claim, arguing that Python, Bash, JavaScript, or existing coding agents can already do similar dynamic tool-building. The strongest shared concern was safety: giving an LLM in-process eval is powerful, but commenters repeatedly — latest discussion,
  1. A 100-line Lisp agent revives AI’s old eval trick▲ 226 · 69 comments0:00 / 0:32 · 7:57