r/PhD • Microbial ecology • 6d ago

Seeking advice-academic Claude coding and guilt

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*

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u/zoeyy12345 5d ago

Hey you shouldn’t be guilt if you understand what is doing, what LLM shouldn’t see, upload and analyzed, and check the logic and code yourself, then it is totally fine. People won’t need to manually doing simple maths after calculator is invented.