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What I have watched happen in my profession in the last two years, I am still struggling to describe. The first time I knew something was wrong, roughly a year and a quarter ago, I noticed a colleague replying to me using AI...

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[–] randy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

The slowness was not a tax on the real work; the slowness was the real work. It was how the work got good, and how the people producing the work got good

This line reminded me of a couple of articles, linked below, that I read on AI use in astrophysics. Developing junior researchers is a big part of the point of their work, so they really are going to have to limit their AI use to make sure development happens. But worry that industry won't care; they've been hollowing out junior positions for years, because there's no value in training a senior who is just going to jump ship to a company that doesn't train juniors. That's an existing problem, but AI seems likely to make it worse.