Podcast Explores AI Research in the Agentic Era
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-07-10
The latest episode of The Information Bottleneck podcast featured Dimitris Papailiopoulos from Microsoft Research and UW-Madison to discuss conducting research in the Agent era. He shared his experience using Claude Code and Codex to solve long-standing problems, calling this a "golden age of prompting."
The show also covered topics such as the minimal Transformer capable of addition, a GSM8K solver built entirely on if-else statements, an experiment letting two Claude instances run freely in the same file system, and the remaining value of information theory to AI.
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