# Murat and Aleksey Read Papers: "Barbarians at the Gate: How AI is Upending Systems Research"

DevFeed: [Murat and Aleksey Read Papers: "Barbarians at the Gate: How AI is Upending Systems Research"](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/murat-and-aleksey-read-papers-barbarians-at-the-gate-how-ai-is-upending-systems-research-39547.md>)

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Author: Aleksey Charapko

Published: 2025-10-17T22:08:59Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Aleksey Charapko](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/aleksey-charapko.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Algorithms, Complexity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/algorithms-complexity.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [algorithm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/algorithm.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed-systems.md>), [evaluation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evaluation.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [other-thoughts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/other-thoughts.md>), [paper-review-and-summary](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/paper-review-and-summary.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

This commentary examines the "Barbarians at the Gate: How AI is Upending Systems Research" paper and its proposed AI-Driven Research for Systems approach. The approach places LLM agents in an iterative loop that refines candidate solutions and evaluates them, but the article questions whether it addresses problem formulation and other essential research steps.

## Source excerpt

The "Barbarians at the Gate: How AI is Upending Systems Research" paper by Audrey Cheng, Shu Liu, Melissa Pan, Zhifei Li, Bowen Wang, Alexander Krentsel, Tian Xia, Mert Cemri, Jongseok Park, Shuo Yang, Jeff Chen, Lakshya Agrawal, Aditya Desai, Jiarong Xing, Koushik Sen, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica from Berkeley has recently made a splash in [...]