Many midlevel engineers enjoyed just writing mid code.  they knew they weren't john carmack but it gave them purpose, they dedicated their life to being mid at it, and it put food on the table for their family.  Setting up a new project scaffolding, environment variables etc.  Same for graphic designers and now mathematicians.  It's understandably hard to cope with your life's work needing to be repurposed so quickly.

Saw a youtube about these chinese drama shorts companies and their actors and directors are also similarly having to cope with so many shops pivoting to AI.  It's sad.

I know a lot of people are dunking on Terrence Tao and others (put the fries in the bag) but I find this kind of sad.  They're likely going to keep producing results at a rate that will be impossible to for human reviewers to even keep up with.

I have some thoughts on this I'll share soon.  But it comes down a bit to, "do you do it because of what you can get out of it, or do you do it because you love it?"

We may all have to ask ourselves this question now because of AI.

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OpenAI internal frontier model: collective math results drop

> I know a lot of people are dunking on Terrence Tao and others (put the fries in the bag) but I find this kind of sad.  They're likely going to keep producing results at a rate that will be impossible to for human reviewers to even keep up with.

I have some thoughts on this I'll share soon.  But it comes down a bit to, "do you do it because of what you can get out of it, or do you do it because you love it?"

We may all have to ask ourselves this question now because of AI.