AI coding agents can modernize research software but can't judge if the science is right

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A field report from OpenAI and academic partners shows coding agents can modernize neglected research software, with speedups of up to 60x.

But the systems are "eloquent, convincing, and confidently wrong in ways that are easy to miss," participants say.

The effort shifts from writing code to the time-consuming work of verifying scientific correctness.

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