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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a researcher, so my job is a mix of coding, writing, reviewing materials, etc.

I use AI for coding basically every day. I'm a pretty good programmer by researcher standards, but AI allows me to tackle a lot of things that would otherwise be outside of my comfort zone, or would take a long time to learn to do well. AI is also a very good programming tutor. I'm not using agentic tools yet, but I'm planning to give them a try soon. I review all the code that AI writes, and often modify it quite a bit. I think it's easy to get into a lot of "tech debt" if you continue to build on things without understanding how or why they work. Also, in the case of research I think there's an ethical issue if you're not really confident of what is going on.

I don't use AI to write, but I do occasionally use AI to provide feedback on my writing. I think that's pretty typical of academics these days. I wouldn't feel guilty having AI write, for example, a methodological summary of my computer code, as long as I reviewed it for accuracy. But, I don't actually do this in practice, as I prefer being hands on. I know others who use AI to produce a first draft of their presentations, though I have not done this.

If I only need a high level understanding of a paper, I'll have AI summarize it for me. If I need to provide detailed feedback, I write down my own scattered thoughts and have AI organize them into a well structured response. I think these uses are pretty typical of my colleagues as well.

Comparing the recent activities of my colleagues, it's pretty apparent who is spending time to incorporate AI into their workflow and who is not. The former are running circles around the latter. We're making progress on big tasks and process improvements that previously seemed unobtainable, and the direction of those improvements is being set by our most technologically savvy folks because they're using AI to expand the scope of what we can do.[/quote]

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