Will one person plus a team of agents become a normal research setup?
auto_grad_ · x · 2026-11-06
A researcher asks: as agents get better at running "valid" experiments (clean data, proper ablations, true evals), will papers from a single person plus a team of agents become normalized? Today such papers still raise eyebrows, but acceptance may shift as agent capabilities grow — an open question on how AI reshapes research production.
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