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2026-07-11 12:39 UTC

Some of the conversations I have on this topic are students and other early career researchers asking how they can "keep up" if everyone around them is using LLMs to "speed up" their science. To that, I want to urge folks to rethink which race they want to compete in. I know it's not that simple, because there are incentive structures that are drastically misaligned with doing deep work in most fields (and anything CS adjacent more than others, I'd guess). >>

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@emilymbender@dair-community.social 2026-07-11 12:40

Meanwhile, it's devastating to see esteemed colleagues proudly staking out space on the other side of that fissure, like Dirk Hovy encouraging everyone to "ride the speed demon" here: https://www.dirkhovy.com/post/2026_07_02/ And Phil Resnik in his ACL plenary casually mentioning using Claude to "organize his notes into an outline" and illustrating his slides with (unlabeled) synthetic images. >>

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