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Why Claude and ChatGPT Struggle with Research Graphics (And What Makes Antigravity Prompts Work)
Stack Overflow has accumulated 72,879 questions tagged matplotlib and another 57,712 tagged ggplot2. Reddit's r/dataisbeautiful (21 million subscribers) fields daily requests for help positioning legends, adjusting axis labels, and fixing overlapping annotations. The collective effort spent on research graphics is staggering, and much of it addresses the same fundamental problem: code can't see what it produces. When we use Claude to generate Python visualizations, we often spend hours fighting
47 Scripts to 15: Cleaning a Research Codebase
Research projects accumulate code debt. An AI agent can map dependencies, identify dead code, and reorganize months of accumulated scripts, with counterfactual tests to verify nothing broke.
6,613 Stores, $147, Zero Lost Data: Robust API Collection
Collecting location data from Google Places API at scale requires handling rate limits, pagination, and failure recovery. A naive script fails in predictable ways.
400 Labels to 94% Accuracy: Validating Grocery Store Data
Google Places returned thousands of 'grocery stores.' Many weren't. Here's how a classifier separates real grocery stores from gas stations and liquor stores.
7 Copy-Paste Cycles to 1 Command: What Changes with Agent-Based Coding
The difference between chatbot-based coding and agent-based coding is categorical, not incremental. Here's what changes when AI can read your entire codebase.
From Methods Paragraph to Working Pipeline: AI-Assisted Implementation
A well-written methodology section is almost executable code. The gap between describing a procedure and implementing it has narrowed dramatically with agent-based coding tools.
One Context File, Zero Re-Explanations: Teaching AI Your Research Project
Every new coding session with AI starts the same way: re-explaining the project. A single CLAUDE.md file loads automatically every session. Write the context once; the agent reads it every time.