Meta researcher: AI can now do grad students' homework — even dissertations
aaron_defazio · x · 2026-09-12
Meta researcher Aaron Defazio argues that AI doing grad students' homework — even dissertations — reflects a challenge facing every profession: seniors built understanding by grinding through junior work, and that path from junior to senior is now unclear. Yet AI is also the best tutor ever, and the real job of senior mathematicians — building conceptual frameworks and integrating ideas — remains theirs.
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