Researcher: frontier LLMs never made me doubt the value of my own work
ShahabBakht · x · 2026-10-27
Researcher @lateinteraction offers a rare personal testimony: as of late Oct 2026, he has not had the slightest moment of questioning the impact of AI on the meaning of his work or skills, nor felt frontier LLMs are super-human at anything coherent he deeply prizes.
His key observation: despite comprehensive productivity gains from AI, the time, expertise and effort needed to produce a finished artifact (paper, model, open-source software, lecture) has barely decreased. The reason is that he never works toward pre-determined outcomes or well-specified field-wide problems — only on artifacts of his own choosing, where AI remains a powerful (and often infuriating) tool rather than a replacement.
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