'The best time to be a researcher': AI is crushing the old scarcity-based game
aran_nayebi · x · 2026-10-08
A researcher argues why this is the best era for research:
- The old game was built on scarcity — scarce compute, scarce students, scarce people who knew the right methods; careers were spent managing those constraints.
- Those walls are crumbling: one person with a good question can now do what used to take a lab and five years.
- No permission, big grants, professor titles, or teams of twenty experts needed.
- The dread many feel is the death of the old game, not of research itself.
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