Notes from translating 11 classic CS papers with Codex. What changed the economics was not one-click translation, but a checked pipeline that pulled PDFs, OCR, terminology, citations, code, formulas, and web layout into the same workflow.
To read classic papers more comfortably, I used Codex to build an agentic translation flow: PDF -> Markdown -> Chinese translation -> terminology cleanup -> cross-references. AI translation is not magic. It is closer to putting translation, editing, proofreading, and layout into one pipeline.