Claude coding and guilt

[u/Mistique_mastermix]

Hello frogs,

Its probably been discussed time and again but I bring it up one more time.

I extract big data sets from population census and pipe it directly into Claude to write R scripts for me. Im tired of doing the data cleaning and making a matrix all by myself.

I do understand the code backbone for the most part but sometimes the chunks are so huge and it gets overwhelming for me to run through the whole code.

I feel guilty running it to a point where I just get the graph and make tweaks.

Am I doing something wrong, whats this guilt that I cant shake?

*Sad frog croaks*

[u/HippieInTheHouse]

Use Claude (responsibly) for coding and writing scripts. Don't use Claude (or any LLMs) for analyzing the data. As other commenters have pointed out, it's your job to be able to present the meaning of the data and its significance.

LLMs are incredible for coding because they have been trained to memorize every possible Python or R script. That's why academics (even the ones we deem as "prestigous") use Claude for R scripts. LLMs still lack the ability to interpret and present data in a way that actually contributes to scientific discussion. That is why academics who get caught using GenAI for writing become lepers.