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Ellen M. O'Brien

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Review Jul 2026

Who is scientific code for? Maintaining human-readable landmarks in agent-written code

Scientific research involving code has long rested on the assumption that at least one person understands why the code exists. As scientists adopt coding agents, this assumption is breaking down. Drawing on an ongoing contextual inquiry of scientific programmers working with agentic tools (four cases to date), a survey...

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