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Autoresearch lets AI coding agents run 100 overnight ML experiments autonomously — 31,000 GitHub stars in one week. Here's what it is, what it isn't, and whether it belongs in your stack.

From $50,000 contracts completed for $297 to entire programming languages built by autonomous loops — the extreme cases capture imagination, but the real story is how to prepare intelligently.

67% of HR leaders say AI slowed their hiring. Entry-level engineering posts dropped 35–73%. The counterintuitive answer: stop letting AI automate hiring, and rebuild the pipeline it is quietly destroying.