No substitute for reading the paper

Written by Alec Fearon on 24 June 2025 in Anapoly Diary
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… what I can say is that a theme throughout this self-analysis is this: I find ChatGPT to be a really useful tool when I already have some idea of what I want to do and when I’m actually engaged with the issue. I find it much less reliable or useful for completely automating parts of the process. There’s no substitute for reading the paper.

Source: Sean Trott in his newsletter How I use (and don’t use) ChatGPT on 24 June 2025