Research Paradigm in the AI Age: Taste, Evaluation, and Rigor
AnneliesGamble · x · 2026-07-22
The article discusses the fundamental shift in knowledge accumulation as AI becomes a major research contributor. Just as language and scientific journals enabled human wisdom to compound, the AI age requires a new research language primitive.
As AI makes ideas and experiments abundant, scarce resources shift to:
- Research taste: Deciding what is worth pursuing.
- Evaluation: Telling us whether meaningful progress was made.
- Rigor: Determining whether the result deserves to enter the scientific record and compound.
These elements form the foundations of an AI-native research stack.
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