> Have you ever been exposed to concepts that are so complex that you feel like you could devote your entire lifetime to trying to understand it and still fall short? It’s a very humbling experience, especially if you have classmates who pick it up effortlessly.

I do have a PhD so I kind of know how that feels. I watched my entire field (PL) get eaten up by AI though, the problems that I thought were huge 10 years ago are just silly footnotes now.

> Without a human holding the reins, consider an LLM a rudderless superboat speeding erratically towards the horizon, finding and proving meaningless theorems that not even your most talented classmate could ever begin to understand.

I don't disagree with that. LLMs are a tool, a super fast pattern matcher, research, token predictor. I don't expect it to go out and define its own esoteric (or useful) problems to pursue without human interaction. That's for the humans to do.

I don't understand what that has to do with my original comment though. I wasn't addressing what problems the LLMs were answering, just how to review and dissect the answers that they would come up with.