This might be the last paper humans ever write.
Scientists have written papers the same way for centuries.
A team from Stanford and CMU thinks that era is ending.
Their point is simple: A paper takes messy, winding research and flattens it into one tidy story.
That tidiness costs you two things.
1. Failed experiments vanish, so AI never sees the wrong turns.
2. Setup details stay in someone's head, so agents can't actually rerun the work.
Their answer swaps the written paper for something an agent can execute directly.
They call it an Agent-Native Research Artifact, and it keeps four things side by side:
> The claims and reasoning
> Code that actually runs
> A log of dead ends
> Raw results behind each number
Then the proof.
Comprehension scores rose from 72.4% to 93.7%, reproduction from 57.4% to 64.4%.
So who are papers really for now?