Pick a lab whose people you like — agents now do the work while you hang out
joannejang · x · 2026-09-17
Joanne Jang offers career advice: choose a lab where you genuinely like the people. If teammates are sufficiently "agent-pilled," you'll mostly be hanging out with them while agents do the work — the way research teams spend time together has fundamentally changed.
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