Agents that read papers and study competing projects before writing code find optimizations that code-only agents miss. The literature research pointed the agent at operator fusions present in CUDA/Metal backends but absent from CPU.
Research-Driven Agents: What Happens When Your Agent Reads Before It Codes | SkyPilot Blog
I wonder if this would apply to using agents on grants, theories of change, impact statements. That would require nonprofits to organize and structure a variety of outcomes data and related research.