Coding agents let senior researchers do first-author work again
anirudhg9119 · x · 2026-08-20
Koh Jingyu observes that thanks to coding agents, many senior researchers are returning to IC / first-author work instead of only managing — a shift in how research teams operate as AI coding tools absorb routine implementation load.
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