Andrew Carr: Grad School's Hard Part Is Now Knowing If You've Solved the Problem
andrew_n_carr · x · 2026-10-17
Andrew Carr (ex-Tesla/OpenAI researcher) observes that with AI handling much of the execution, the hard part of a graduate degree is no longer doing the work itself, but knowing whether you've actually solved the problem — verification is the new bottleneck.
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