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When AI Becomes Its Own Research Assistant

A junior researcher is not usually asked to invent an entirely new field before lunch. They are given a paper, a codebase, a baseline, and a moderately suspicious supervisor. They read, try a few modifications, break something, fix it, run experiments, write up the result, and then discover that reviewers are not, in fact, decorative. ...

November 7, 2025 · 13 min · Zelina