Coding Agents Speed Up Research but Demand Clearer Project Vision

MIT researcher Dylan Hadfield-Menell and others note that coding agents let students produce faster but projects drift more easily; the remedy is spending more effort articulating research motivations and keeping a clear vision of the claims experiments should support.

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