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AI Coding Agents Speed Up Research Software, but Verification Becomes the Real Bottleneck
Key Takeaways
- A field report describes eight research-software modernization projects using coding agents.
- Some projects ranged from build-system updates to full rewrites of widely used scientific tools.
- Reported gains included a more than 60-fold speedup in one quality-control workflow.
- The central constraint is verification: experts still need to confirm scientific equivalence and correctness.
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