Professor sums up the 3 stages of an academic career, ending back where it started
prof_kamilov · x · 2026-09-04
A scholar offers a wry three-stage model of academic careers: you write your own papers, you recruit PhD students to write them for you, and finally you end up writing your own papers again — a joke about academia's labor loop that resonates in the age of hyperproductive AI papers.
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