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The scarcity was researcher-hours

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The First Open-Source Agentic AI Physicist (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Physics still ran on one theorist, one whiteboard, one career. If the constraint on the next golden age was the supply of physicist-hours rather than ideas, relieving it changes the rate of everything the physical world is waiting on.

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2026-03-15: An open agent scopes, derives, verifies and writes up physics research

2026-03-15: An autopilot mode compresses a well-scoped problem from weeks to hours

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The scarcity was researcher-hours
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- The First Open-Source Agentic AI Physicist — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/the-first-open-source-agentic-ai
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