# Clinical Trial Programming Paper Reports That General Code Agents Fail on Regulated Data Transformation

The authors propose a fixed process graph over agent steps rather than letting a language model plan the pipeline itself.

- Published: 2026-08-19T06:20:14.557Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-19/clinical-trial-programming-paper-reports-that-general-code-a
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [arXiv cs.AI](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16890)

Turning a clinical study protocol into analysis-ready datasets under the standards of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is one of the slower steps in preparing a regulatory submission, and it is exactly the kind of…

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