OpenAI nukes your research, you rewrite your project in Rust: 'a jobs program for ourselves'

almmaasoglu · x · 2026-10-07

Quoting a mathematician joking that they now "have more time for other projects" after OpenAI nuked their research, almmaasoglu quips: OpenAI nukes your research as a mathematician and you find a new field; it nukes your project as a SWE and you rewrite it in Rust. "We are a jobs program for ourselves" — a wry take on AI destroying and recreating work in the same stroke.

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