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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by joshdata on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:22AM (#50453106)
How do we know that this is a good thing? Putting a "Ruin here!" pushpin on a map and leaving the actual archeology to others sounds more like a vanity boost than an achievement, and at worst the opportunity for the site to be desecrated before anyone serious has a chance to study it.

It's like the new drive-by pull requests I'm getting in my open source repositories. No consideration for the people doing the actual work.

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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by desterothx on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:02AM (#50453559)
Which is why he specifically didnt give a pushpin, and censored out the location and the region in the mail? Also whats stopping the bad actors from doing this work themselves (aside from the price, which im sure could be optimized for, if you don't have an unlimited budget of tokens), and then looting them while the real scientists are none the wiser?
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