Zhengzhong Tu and Dimitris Papailiopoulos argue research should start with whether Claude Code can solve it quickly; if it can’t today, it may soon, making slow-to-explore problems less attractive for students.
Here is my advice to every PhD student before starting a project: 1. Can Claude Code solve it in a day?
2. Will a Research Agent solve it soon?
3. Will scaling solve it anyway?
I actually think that “Claude Code can solve it” is a prerequisite for a great research problem because it allows you to explore hypotheses much faster.
In fact if CC can’t solve it I’d flag it as a bad problem because it will solve it in six months that you’ll be wasting on it
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