Research Methods in the Age of Agents
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-07-10
In an episode of the podcast The Information Bottleneck, guests discuss the experience and changes of conducting research in the agent era. Topics include the shock of using Claude Code and Codex to solve years-old problems, information theory, continuous learning, and multi-agent file system experiments.
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