been reading all the quotes and comments on this post both on twitter and youtube (comments of the original video)
Personally, one of the main reasons I like maths is I enjoy solving problems. I like to do that with no external help, and think deeply about ideas this way. It seems that this is becoming a hobby as opposed to a core part of the profession, since, in my field, it’s now always faster to work with an LLM than just with pen and paper. What I enjoy doing and the mathematician’s profession seems to be diverging, and this is making me sad.
I wonder what the incentive to do research would be in future
a comment from 3blue1brown's most recent video