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13. #Timing is everything‼️‼️
No idea is so unique that only you will ever think of it. You are not that #smart.

☝️This is one of my favorite pieces of advice for #junior #researchers, who tend to think they are sooooo clever that nobody else is having the same idea. Well, they do, so make sure to work on / publish your great idea before others do.

This has happened to me many times.... Last example is very recent. One year ago I wrote down a #card in my #trello about the need to #annotate the code generated by an #Agent (well, it was beginning of 2025 so I used the word #LLM as agents were not that hot then) using some type of simple #DSL.

But did nothing to explore this further since then. And I had to now add a note saying that what I wanted to do is probably already covered by #AgentTrace from Cursor released a couple of weeks ago.

#phdlife #research #researchcareer #advice

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