In the LLM era of STEM, the low-hanging fruit is still worth taking
littmath · x · 2026-07-23
The post argues that what some people call “just typing continue” can actually look like inventing a new field. The reply says early fields always have trivial results that get named after whoever arrived first, and that in the new era of LLM-powered STEM, people should simply go pick the low-hanging fruit.
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