Elicit (elicit.com) is built specifically for academic research tasks. Unlike general AI assistants, it connects to a database of over 200 million res
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Perplexity AI launched in 2022 as a "search engine with citations." For academic work, it occupies a specific niche: faster initial discovery of resea
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Statistical analysis is where AI assistance carries the highest risk in research. A coding error in your literature review wastes an hour; a statistic
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Germany's research system is unusually complex — university departments, Leibniz institutes, Helmholtz centers, Fraunhofer institutes, and Max Planck
2025-06-24
The Claude API makes it possible to build custom AI tools tailored to your exact research workflow — a specialized literature assistant, an automated
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A Chinese academic post that went viral — "I've decided to let Claude accompany me through writing my 200,000-character PhD dissertation" — captured s
2024-12-30
"Vibe coding" — a term popularised in early 2025, referring to the practice of writing code primarily through AI interaction rather than manual typing
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Cursor is a code editor built on VS Code with AI chat deeply integrated — not just autocomplete, but a full conversation about your code and your code
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Research coding is different from software engineering. The objective isn't a maintainable system — it's a result you trust. This shapes how AI coding
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MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open protocol developed by Anthropic and released in November 2024 that standardises how AI systems connect to exte
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