A simple prompt can replicate your 'carefully designed' auto-research system
Cosma Shalizi argues that many 'carefully designed' auto-research agents can be matched by a simple prompt, noting that for well-defined tasks, iterated session files achieve nearly the same results, so the excitement is overblown.
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