Rex Douglass says automated verification could strip out the fluff in research work
RexDouglass · x · 2026-07-27
- The author says this is a worst-case job box for humans if LLMs take over: large-scale automated search and verification can capture the rigorous parts.
- Buyers will know what they are getting, while the “drama and fluff” are engineered away.
- The reply argues that anti-LLM panic often mixes different standards of correctness: a counterexample may be dismissed if the author lacks deep understanding, while work with understanding can still be dismissed over one error.
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