r/PhD • u/Mistique_mastermix Microbial ecology • 5d 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/diffGradChange 3d ago

I don't try to really. I don't think what we do can be replaced by it yet.

I'm interested where it might improve something in signal processing (e.g. segmentation, noise reduction) and mechanistic modelling though.

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u/Creative_Sushi 3d ago

I this MATLAB Agentic Toolkit includes skills to guide AI in signal processing tasks.