Agents are about to revive a wave of 'good idea but too tedious' research papers
generativist · x · 2026-10-25
A widely shared take argues that as AI agents finally get good, the next few years will see a surge of "good idea but tedious to implement" papers — ideas once shelved purely due to engineering effort can now be executed by agents. The quoted reply dubs it "the summer of rebooting dead PL ideas," suggesting a wave of revived programming-languages research ideas.
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