Coding agents cause runaway scope creep in research, warns scientist
rishabh16_ · x · 2026-10-06
Researcher rishabh16 argues that coding agents like Claude and Codex derail research by suggesting endless follow-up experiments, causing scope creep and "research-slop." His antidote: handwrite fixed research questions, examine one result set at a time, and manually draft each next hypothesis before letting the agent run — slower, but closer to how research used to work.
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