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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.