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Reading More Papers Won't Save You: Turning Research Taste Into a Deliberate Loop
Nobody teaches you how to do research, so most people learn to look like a researcher. As AI makes generating experiments cheap, the scarce skill is a loop: pick your own problems, upgrade inputs, write hypotheses down, tighten the loop, stare at outputs, kill bad ideas early, find your people.
Frontier AI Labs Do Not Just Need Geniuses. They Need Map-Makers.
Getting into a frontier AI lab is often framed as research skill plus trench engineering. Underneath, both are about making progress when the map is incomplete.
Idea-Catalyst Doesn't Run Your Experiments — It Helps You Rethink Them
Researchers at U of Illinois built a system called Idea-Catalyst. According to the tweet, it's not an AI scientist that runs experiments — it analyzes cross-disciplinary ideas to help researchers discover new research angles.
Karpathy Built an 8-Agent AI Research Team — They Can't Actually Do Research
Karpathy spent a weekend running 4 Claude + 4 Codex agents as an ML research team on GPUs. The result: agents are S-tier at implementation but F-tier at experiment design. His key insight — 'You are now programming an organization' — might define agentic engineering in 2026.