With AI, whether that's LLM-based chatbots or LLM-based agents, it's been easier than ever to ask AI "Suggest a novel research idea" and to "code this idea for me: [paste]".
Writing
Just random thoughts and beliefs I have
When I tell people I do research, they often ask who my mentor is. It is almost always the immediate thought of professors to think, when a high schooler does research, they have a mentor doing the majority of the planning and sometimes even the majority of the work.