Automating AI research may look more like data cleaning than inventing the transformer
jzl86 · x · 2026-07-26
A quoted opinion argues that automating AI research will look much more like data cleaning than like inventing the transformer.
- The point is that a lot of research automation may end up being unglamorous infrastructure work rather than a single grand discovery loop.
- It frames AI research automation as a messy, pipeline-heavy task where curation and cleanup matter as much as modeling ideas.
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