Researcher's job is now 'finding and managing enough tokens' to do all the work
RexDouglass · x · 2026-11-06
- RexDouglass jokes that the gods of computation made him write STATA, then rewrite everything in R, then Python, then learn Rust — and finally automate it all.
- His real point: his job has become finding and managing enough tokens to do all the work thrown at him. He knows the end product and the steps; the bottleneck is no longer skill but token supply — a telling snapshot of the AI-era knowledge worker.
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