3Blue1Brown reflects on AI in math; reply says career pain deserves sympathy, not optimism
josh_wills · x · 2026-10-18
3Blue1Brown (Grant Sanderson) published a reflection on AI in math, breaking down what mathematicians actually do, why math is valuable, and where funding comes from, then projecting what happens as AI gets more capable. Reposting it, joshwills pushed back on the framing: 'never a better time to go into math' is easy to say from outside the career ladder — for PhD students whose thesis problems just got solved by models, or postdocs wondering if their skills still count, careers are being reoriented and that deserves sympathy, not just optimism.
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