A user testing the ThoughtDAG interface found that removing a single edge from an LLM's context graph changed the model's output, even when the model had previously repeated a wrong claim.
- In a controlled scenario, a source node initially showed 17% worse performance, which flipped to 17% better after a corrupted note was added.
- With the contaminated note still wired in, the model repeated the incorrect recommendation until the edge carrying that branch was removed.
- Removing the edge excluded the upstream node from the next request without deleting the earlier work, causing the recommendation to change.
- ThoughtDAG is a local-first, MIT-licensed project supporting Ollama and OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
The author seeks criticism on experiment design and questions whether context control should remain human-directed or be delegated to the system.