Grad student: academia is cooked and prestigious jobs may only have 2 years left
felpix_ · x · 2026-10-13
A soon-to-graduate student in social sciences/STEM says he has no idea what he'll be doing in six months: academia is "cooked," and it's too late to apply for prestigious jobs — which he believes have less than two years left anyway, joking about writing in solitude in the woods.
Quoting @corsaren, who argues tech bros mock mathematicians for having a crisis over their life's passion being automated in a single summer, then wonder why everyone hates Silicon Valley: "you people are not ensouled." The exchange captures rising anxiety over AI's disruption of academic and entry-level career paths, and the cultural backlash it fuels.
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