89% of December 2025 Biomedical Papers Show AI Writing Traces
Replies examine AI use for rewriting papers and structuring ideas versus adding slop.
Software engineer Amit Yadav replied that AI decisions center on what to build and verifying outputs. Researcher Leo Boytsov said authors underuse AI to rewrite their own text because the work feels like effort. Simon stated he does not care whether AI helps with writing or data analysis code as long as results replicate. User natesuits noted AI can sequence ideas and phrasing more convincingly than he manages alone. Research engineer Susan Zhang observed that AI adds tolerable slop to code since few humans read it anyway. Another user claimed AI will only ever produce slop.
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89% of December 2025 Biomedical Papers Show AI Writing Traces
Replies examine AI use for rewriting papers and structuring ideas versus adding slop.
Software engineer Amit Yadav replied that AI decisions center on what to build and verifying outputs. Researcher Leo Boytsov said authors underuse AI to rewrite their own text because the work feels like effort. Simon stated he does not care whether AI helps with writing or data analysis code as long as results replicate. User natesuits noted AI can sequence ideas and phrasing more convincingly than he manages alone. Research engineer Susan Zhang observed that AI adds tolerable slop to code since few humans read it anyway. Another user claimed AI will only ever produce slop.
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Susan Zhang@suchenzangno, "AI" adds slop abstractions and slop comments, but all of that slop is tolerable because no human is reading code slop anymore. put another way, rarely do engineers ever get rewarded based on cleaner code and readability, so it's a tragedy-of-commons problem at its core.…
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