PhD team cuts weekly literature reviews from 3.5 hours to 30 minutes with an AI Slack agent
Faheem_uh · x · 2026-10-31
A PhD student describes how his team replaced a 3.5-hour Friday literature review ritual with "Viktor," an AI employee living in Slack/Teams that auto-switches to the best model each month. Workflow: connect reference library, shared drive and group channel; assemble a weekly digest from what the group saved and discussed; flag unread papers and deadlines; human approval takes 10 minutes. Note the post doubles as marketing for viktor.com.
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