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Forkpath: Change One Moment in History, Then Let the AI Do the Homework

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What I Built Forkpath is an alternate-history explorer. You type one sentence ("What if the Ming treasure fleets kept sailing?"), pick when it happens, and an AI writer maps out what follows, event by event, as a branching tree with the odds at every fork. Writing good alternate history is a lot of…

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  1. 2026-10-20 04:08 · DEV Community — AI
    Forkpath: Change One Moment in History, Then Let the AI Do the Homework

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