First shot of agentic coding

For HW1 in BST236, I played around with agentic coding and built a small website that automatically pulls the latest arXiv papers tagged with q-bio.QM (quantitative biology, quantitative methods). I had noticed GitHub’s agentic coding feature a while ago but never actually tried it until this assignment gave me a good excuse to do so. It turned out to be a really fun experience, and it made me want to experiment with this kind of workflow more often as a way to stay up to date with new research.

To be honest, I used to feel a bit anxious about how fast AI is moving, especially the feeling that it might make deep knowledge less important. This class helped shift that mindset for me. Instead of feeling pushed aside by new tools, I found myself getting more curious and more willing to learn by building things and figuring them out along the way.

Here is the resulting webpage, which I am quite happy with: https://damarisdeng.github.io/arxiv-pull/