Researcher turns Hamming, Carlini and Nanda's research advice into an agent skill for second-opinion reviews
menhguin · x · 2026-11-10
Developer menhguin shares how he loads Neel Nanda's research blogs as docs/context inside Cursor (where he also writes papers), using them as an editing guide. He also maintains a custom how-to-do-research agent skill that has the model consult a short, curated set of high-signal research advice before picking a problem, designing experiments or writing a paper — used as a second-opinion/second-sweep pass. He told Neel Nanda (who asked for feedback on his birthday) that Nanda's entry ranks right after Richard Hamming's "You and Your Research" and Nicholas Carlini's research advice in that skill's reference list.
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