Scientist can imagine AI writing all code, but not a world where AI does all the math
s_scardapane · x · 2026-09-12
ML researcher Simone Scardapane offers an asymmetry: as a programmer, he can imagine a world where all code is AI-written and traditional programmers fade away; as a scientist, he has zero idea what a world where "AI does all the math" would even look like. A thought-provoking take on the limits of AI in scientific research versus software engineering.
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