Claude Code for Research Papers [R]

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Third-year PhD student, NLP / interpretability. I want a reality check from people doing similar work. I started using Claude Code for the boring parts: argparse boilerplate, plotting, config wrangling. Over the last few months the scope has crept. It now writes most of my experiment scaffolding, refactors my dataloaders, does first-pass debugging on training runs, and drafts the analysis scripts. I mostly read diffs and say yes. The output is fine. My throughput is up. The thing bothering me is