Professor Makes Codex Pro Standard for PhD Students, Sparking Debate

A PhD advisor has given every student in his lab a Codex Pro subscription, calling it as standard as a laptop. Noting students' weekly progress far exceeds his own doctoral-era output, he argues research training should shift toward topic selection as execution becomes cheap, sparking debate over AI use by students.

2026-10-16 ~ 2026-10-16 · 4 related posts

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