I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it
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Initial enthusiasm for the AI-assisted discovery shifts to heated debate. Two camps: those praising the innovative use of AI in scientific data analysis, and those demanding peer review before accepting the claim. Critics cite false positive risks when AI agents work on raw telemetry. Defenders note NASA approved an observing proposal for TESS to confirm the candidate in November. A separate thread criticizes the article's writing style as AI slop, with readers flagging low information density and bombastic prose. The author apologized on Reddit, admitting excitement led to stylistic issues.