@emilymbender@dair-community.social
Post #3740266
2026-07-11 12:39 UTC
Having just come back from #ACL2026, and reading Lily Hu's piece (linked at the top of this thread), I am struck by how the glib facility of LLMs is exposing a giant fissure across all academic fields, dividing us within each field based on how we conceive of what we do.
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@emilymbender@dair-community.social 2026-07-11 12:39
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). >>