AI Killed the Hacking Joy: Top Engineer Returns to Research, Joins Google SRG
tianyin_xu · x · 2026-09-17
tianyinxu congratulates JinghaoJ on joining Google SRG with research as part of his role, calling him one of the most talented students he's worked with — the one person he could never convince to pursue research, until AI did. His argument: random AI-for-coding mandates have sucked the fun out of hacking and devalued craftsmanship culture, while research remains fun and AI now enables bigger, more ambitious research projects.
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