Julian Togelius on starting a research career in the age of superhuman coding agents
burny_tech · x · 2026-11-10
Game AI researcher Julian Togelius, while reviewing hundreds of PhD and postdoc applications for his new lab, published a long blog post on what it means to start a research career when AI agents have gone from mediocre at coding and terrible at math to, in some senses, superhuman at both. He reflects on candidate quality and what young researchers should do differently.
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