A first-year PhD student says ML systems research has been made obsolete by LLMs
kohjingyu · x · 2026-09-10
ML researcher kohjingyu shares a striking contrast: a first-year PhD student told him his entire ML systems field has been made obsolete by recent LLMs and his past research was pointless (which the author disputes). Two years ago, another first-year PhD student confidently claimed MLsys work would always complement frontier labs — showing how researcher sentiment swung from overconfidence to over-pessimism.
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