PhD Student Shares AI-Assisted Workflow to Overcome Research Procrastination
Jerry2deva · reddit · 2026-08-10
A second-year machine learning PhD student shares their experience overcoming the habit of over-researching and delaying experiments. Previously, they would hoard 30-40 papers per new topic without translating notes into actual tests.
This time, they integrated literature review directly with experiment design. By focusing on low-resource attention mechanisms and comparing existing setups, they formulated actionable hypotheses. They also used Deep Principle's mira tool to help break down and compare experimental setups across dozens of papers. While the tool didn't generate ideas from scratch, it significantly reduced repetitive comparison work, helping them finally establish baselines, metrics, and a clear coding direction.
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