From PDF to PI: Turning Papers into Productive Agents
Every R&D team has a shelf of papers that are theoretically useful and practically booby-trapped. The abstract is promising. The method is relevant. The results look transferable. Then reality arrives wearing a conda error message: the repository has three setup paths, two notebooks, one undocumented dependency, and a tutorial that assumes you already know the answer. The paper has been published. The method has not, in any serious operational sense, been delivered. ...