🤖📚 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:

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

⚙️ Installation (For Humans)

# 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:

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

💻 Usage

# 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

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

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