Programmers Became Cyborgs, Mathematicians Are Handling AI Like Toddlers
banteg · x · 2026-10-07
banteg mocks how programmers have been 'automated into superhuman cyborgs' while mathematicians react to the same AI transition 'like toddlers' — complaining that AI took 'their' conjectures. He argues this happens when a field gets so divorced from reality that researchers start believing they own the questions.
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