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If an agent can build the obvious demo, the obvious demo probably isn’t worth building anymore.
For years, turning a research repo into something people could actually try was valuable by itself.
That part is becoming automated — and that’s a good thing.
Which means the interesting work moves elsewhere: finding the weird use case, the right interaction, the unexpected model combination — or simply knowing which paper is worth anyone’s attention.
The demo used to be the product. Now it needs a point of view.
For years, turning a research repo into something people could actually try was valuable by itself.
That part is becoming automated — and that’s a good thing.
Which means the interesting work moves elsewhere: finding the weird use case, the right interaction, the unexpected model combination — or simply knowing which paper is worth anyone’s attention.
The demo used to be the product. Now it needs a point of view.