AI researchers automating their own jobs is only ironic if you think problems end there
jeremyjordan · x · 2026-07-25
The reply argues that it only feels ironic when people assume there will be no more important problems left to solve.
The core idea is a growth mindset: if your career is an open-ended set of problems, automating your current work is satisfying because it creates a durable solution and frees you to move on to the next problem. In that framing, recursive AI research is less self-defeating than it first appears.
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