PhD students torn between pumping out AI-assisted papers and real skill-building
SeaAccomplished441 · reddit · 2026-10-14
A PhD student vents about the current research race: either churn out AI-topic papers with Claude's help and neglect your own development, or take it slow and fall behind in publishing. With two non-AI papers still under review, they admit it's hard to resist "vibing" a third paper from start to finish with Claude. The post struck a chord about how AI is reshaping academic publishing incentives and research training.
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