Paper2Agent: Stanford Reimagining Research Papers as Interactive AI Agents

> Conventional research papers require readers to invest substantial effort to understand and adapt a paper's code, data, and methods to their own work [...]

But that's the point! If we take out the effort to understand, really understand something on a deeper level from even research, then how can there be anything useful build on top of it? Is everything going to loose any depth and become shallow?

They’re not talking about removing any effort to understand a paper, but to lower it for the same level of understanding.

If more effort required to reach the same understanding was a good thing we should be making papers much harder to read than they currently are.

Why are the specific things they are doing a problem? Automatically building pipelines and code described in a paper, checking it matches the reported results then being able to execute it for queries the user has - is that a bad thing for understanding?