How every profession reacts to AI: engineers celebrate, mathematicians declare doom
RexDouglass · x · 2026-10-10
A viral joke nails how different fields react to AI: software engineers see productivity gains, lawyers plan to drink more, electrical engineers note models genuinely accelerate electronics work — while mathematicians mourn that "the west has fallen."
The context is OpenAI's internal model churning out hard math results, prompting Andrew Curran to urge people not to mock mathematicians: every expertise will face this moment eventually.
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