MIT Researcher Lands New Info Theory Result After 200+ Hours of Agent Work, 120 Pages to Review
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-09-11
MIT researcher Dimitris Papailiopoulos reports that after 200+ hours of agent-assisted work, extensive GPU certificate wrangling, and three weeks fighting with astra, fable, and sol, he finally has a reasonably cool new information theory result. He now needs about a week to review and simplify 120 pages of work.
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