This blog post has more accessible writing and diagrams: https://www.sigops.org/2025/barbarians-at-the-gate-how-ai-is...

From TFA: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06189

> We term this approach as AI-Driven Research for Systems (ADRS), which iteratively generates, evaluates, and refines solutions.

> The central thesis of this paper is that a new class of AI-driven approaches, which we term AI-Driven Research for Systems (ADRS), is beginning to show promising results in automated algorithm discovery, and will ultimately prompt a re-evaluation of the traditional role of systems researchers.