AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · 15h ago7/10
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Persistent AI Agents in Academic Research: A Single-Investigator Implementation Case Study
Researchers conducted a 4-month case study embedding a persistent AI agent into a real academic research environment, tracking 75,671 telemetry records across 96 active days. The study reveals that persistent agents shift computational economics from cost-per-token to cost-per-artifact, with cache-dominant workflows achieving 82.9% token reuse efficiency.