Agentic research is oxymoronic

arXiv:2608.31161 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-08-31 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-08-31

Updated: 2026-08-31

Terminology

• Agentic AI — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic System — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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• Why do we do astrophysics?

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