my hot take is i agree that human researchers spend a ridiculous amount doing stupid stuff (see my shortform on this), but also I don’t think it’s very easy to automate the stupid stuff.
I’ve optimized my research setup to get quite tight feedback loops. if I had more slack I could probably make things even better, but it would look more like developing better infrastructure and hpopt techniques myself, than handing work off to agents.
I disagree that you have to use grid search and not anything more clever in theory. I currently use grid searches too for simplicity, and it’s definitely nontrivial to get the clever thing to tell you about interactions, but it doesn’t seem fundamentally impossible.
my hot take is i agree that human researchers spend a ridiculous amount doing stupid stuff (see my shortform on this), but also I don’t think it’s very easy to automate the stupid stuff.
I’ve optimized my research setup to get quite tight feedback loops. if I had more slack I could probably make things even better, but it would look more like developing better infrastructure and hpopt techniques myself, than handing work off to agents.
I disagree that you have to use grid search and not anything more clever in theory. I currently use grid searches too for simplicity, and it’s definitely nontrivial to get the clever thing to tell you about interactions, but it doesn’t seem fundamentally impossible.