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In the last few months, I've spoken to many CS professors who asked me if we even need CS PhD students anymore. Now that we have coding agents, can't professors work directly with agents? My view is that equipping PhD students with coding agents will allow them to do work that is orders of magnitude more impressive than they otherwise could. And they can be *accountable* for their outcomes in a way agents can't (yet). For example, who checks the agent's outputs are correct? Who is responsible for mistakes or errors?

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