Terence Tao hosts guest post on what math students should do in the LLM era
keviv9 · x · 2026-10-09
Mathematician Álvaro Lozano-Robledo published a guest post, What should we tell our students?, on Terence Tao's blog, addressing career anxiety among math students facing the rise of LLMs.
The post was triggered by a heartfelt message from an undergraduate who once dreamed of an academic math career but now questions the meaning of studying after seeing new LLM capabilities — and must make career decisions now. The author notes many similar requests are flooding in.
The TL;DR: keep calm and carry on studying math. The piece targets students and early-career mathematicians, and asks readers to share it with students.
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