This paper explores how a student researcher used Artificial Intelligence to model a prodrug. The paper itself is a reflective case study that examines both the strengths and weaknesses related to learning through AI supervision. This piece touches on how AI could potentially expand Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development and then focuses on how AI guided a student researcher through each relevant stage of modelling a prodrug.
Stypula et al. (2026) studied this question.