To misquote Paul Valéry, "a paper is never finished, only abandoned." That bittersweet feeling is tied to the amount of personal effort put in. In many ways, I am excited at the prospect of being able to move faster. But I'm not sure if I'm ready to move so fast so soon so effortlessly.
This is a smart, funny, and poignant description of the research process. Your series on Claude code so far has been very helpful and entertaining and eye-opening. I hope human researchers don't get wholly displaced as rapidly as brute efficiency demands. Keep up the great posts!
Perhaps their final scientific endeavor is to study how they themselves are disappearing, step by step, in the final moments before they vanish.
To misquote Paul Valéry, "a paper is never finished, only abandoned." That bittersweet feeling is tied to the amount of personal effort put in. In many ways, I am excited at the prospect of being able to move faster. But I'm not sure if I'm ready to move so fast so soon so effortlessly.
This is a smart, funny, and poignant description of the research process. Your series on Claude code so far has been very helpful and entertaining and eye-opening. I hope human researchers don't get wholly displaced as rapidly as brute efficiency demands. Keep up the great posts!
Thank you Mary! I must have rewritten this 10 times over the last week.
Did I miss CC 30? Or is that the standard errors post?
Good catch. I had the wrong number to it. Just fixed it
Just so beautiful. Made my day. In a strange way, it reminded me of the Asimov short story "The Last Question"
Thank you! I rewrote this thing 10 times in a week and felt like if I messed with it anymore I'd break it. :)
Loved it and it kept me wondering about comparative advantages we as human researchers might have over machines, there must be at least one!