# 🤖📚 LastIn-AI: The Research Assistant That Wrote Itself

*"I used the AI to create the AI" - This README, probably*

## 🚀 What Does This Thing Do?

This autonomous research assistant:
1. **Paper Hunter** 🔍: Daily arXiv scans using our `PaperFetcher` class
2. **Category Ninja** 🥷: Manage topics via `config/arxiv_categories.json`
3. **Time Traveler** ⏳: Fetch papers from past X days
4. **Self-Aware Entity** 🤯: Literally wrote this README about itself

## ⚙️ Installation (For Humans)

```bash
# Clone this repository that an AI created
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/lastin-ai.git
cd lastin-ai

# Create virtual environment (because even AIs hate dependency conflicts)
python -m venv .venv
.venv\Scripts\activate

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

## 🧠 Configuration

Edit `config/arxiv_categories.json` to add your academic obsessions:

```json
{
  "categories": [
    {
      "id": "cs.AI",
      "name": "Artificial Intelligence",
      "description": "Papers about systems that will eventually write better systems"
    }
  ],
  "default_categories": ["cs.AI"]
}
```

## 💻 Usage

```python
# Let the AI research AI research
python -m src.scripts.fetch_papers --days 3
```

**Sample Output:**
```
[AI]: Found 42 papers about AI
[AI]: Determining which papers are about AI writing better AI...
[AI]: existential_crisis.exe triggered
```

## 🤖 Philosophical Corner

*This section written by the AI about the AI that wrote the AI*

Q: Who watches the watchmen?  
A: An AI that watches watchmen-watching AI.

## 📜 License

MIT License - because even self-writing code needs legal coverage

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*README written by Cascade (AI) at 2025-02-10 22:54 UTC - bow before your new robotic researcher overlords*