Comment by evolighting

Around the time I graduated from the research institute in 2020, it seems my lab already had a similar infrastructure, just without LLMs and agents.

Back then, we had data repositories, databases, Jupyter Notebooks, Slurm batches, open computing platforms, and so on. It could do similar things ---- just by hand.

While adding an LLM agent can indeed drastically improve usability, it must be a massive headache for system administrators. It honestly sounds like introducing a huge, uncontrollable wildcard into the system.