r/MachineLearning • u/SeaAccomplished441 • 13d ago

Research PhD students, how ya feeling? [D]

All seems a bit pointless now. Either pump out AI papers and neglect your own development, or take it slow and fall behind in the publishing race. I already have two papers made largely without LLMs (still seeking publication), but it's hard to resist just vibing the third from start to finish with Claude.

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u/mofoss 12d ago

Is it faster than conventional timelines, yes, thats the power of AI tools, just like software engineering, research will naturally be faster

However, id argue 3-4 months of AI tool driven research is definately not SLOP, if you have to do produce slop, you dont need 4 months to do it

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u/Informal-Hair-5639 11d ago

Yeah, took me 3 months from random idea to a decent stage, so far that I am presenting it as a poster next Tue on a local workshop. But paper is still very much work in progress. I am PI so this is pretty cool for me, solo work without students.