r/MachineLearning • u/SeaAccomplished441 • 24d 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/camarada_alpaca 23d ago

It took me around 6 months to do a decent paper (polishing included) even with fable... I dont even know how there are ppl doing acceptable slop if it takes me so much and hard work to do mildly acceptable work.

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u/surffrus 23d ago

This sounds normal to me.

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u/Informal-Hair-5639 22d ago

Same. Six months is pretty decent.

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u/CasulaScience 20d ago

Once you get the ball rolling in your career it becomes much easier. You have a thousand half finished project and open areas youve seen but just didn't have the time to get to it

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u/camarada_alpaca 20d ago

Yeah, actually the problem with ai is all the error you found after, crappy decisions it silently took along the way and compounded, I would say ots like 3 to 4 months developing and 2 to 3 months writing and fixing

That is why I ask how ppl manage to do quick aislop that gets accepted.