PhD advisor gives every student a Codex Pro subscription: "execution is getting cheap"
DJiafei · x · 2026-10-16
A PhD advisor (DJiafei quoting darylbleach) gives every doctoral student a Codex Pro subscription, arguing it should be as standard as a laptop. Comparing his students' weekly output to his own first-year PhD pace, he finds them barely comparable.
But this shifts what students should be trained for: execution is getting cheaper, while choosing the right problem and knowing whether it's truly solved remains hard — that's where the PhD's value lies. The quoted solo founder jokes that work covers Codex and Antigravity, he pays for Claude himself, and it's "the cheapest staff member I've ever had — also the only one."
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