$cat vibe-research.md
“vibe research”. Like “vibe coding”, it’s performing a difficult technical task by relying on the model. I have a broad intuitive sense of what approaches are being tried, but I definitely don’t have a deep enough understanding to do this research unassisted. A real AI researcher would get a lot more out of the tool.
The basic loop of doing AI research with Codex (at least as an enthusiastic amateur) looks something like this:
- Codex makes a change to the training script and does three or four runs (this takes ~20 minutes overall)
- Based on the results, Codex suggests two or three things that you could try next
- I pick one of them (or very occasionally suggest my own idea) and return to (1).
Source: https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-research-with-codex/