Undergrad shocked researchers can read papers without AI
tak3sh8 · x · 2026-08-28
The author shares a concerning anecdote: an undergraduate was genuinely surprised that researchers and professors can understand papers without an LLM intermediary, having tried and failed to do so himself. The author is shocked by this over-reliance on AI.
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