Allie Miller shares her AI research workflow: hypothesis-first with hundreds of agents
alliekmiller · x · 2026-09-05
Allie Miller describes a pattern she uses in Astra: ask the model upfront for hypotheses, then spin up dozens to hundreds of agents—each with different context windows—to research, validate, and discover.
If AI starts making scientific breakthroughs in the next 18 months as many experts expect, testing whether AI is blindly hammering a million options (the CoastRunners pattern) or genuinely ideating new theories becomes crucial. She notes Ethan Mollick is doing something similar.
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