Advice for junior researchers: read papers and write without AI in the loop
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-15
Paul Novosad wraps up his thread: AI may improve, but right now it's driving many young people to worse work and worse thinking. The best things a junior researcher can do are read papers and write ideas without AI — use it to find papers, but keep it out of the thinking process.
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