PhD life in 2027: pitch idea at lunch, Claude codes, runs and posts to arXiv by dinner
herbiebradley · x · 2026-11-11
A viral-style joke from herbiebradley imagining the PhD student of 2027: think of an idea over lunch, ask Claude 6 to code it up and run it, get a significant performance gain back, then have Claude put the paper on arXiv a few hours later to avoid being scooped. The punchline — "it will feel entirely normal" — captures expectations that AI coding agents will radically reshape research workflows.
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