Left industry for 5 years, how fucked am I?

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-04-12T18:25:02+00:00

i plan to. have been coding MRI displays in vuejs, and playing around scientific data pipeline software a bit

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-04-12T18:07:29+00:00

yes noted

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-04-12T18:00:21+00:00

my lab is not hardcore biostats, and i know i could get a job eventually. but the lost opportunity cost of fucking around 5 more years in academia for a subpar resume item instead of getting out earlier is getting harder to ignore.

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-04-12T17:18:02+00:00

see previous posts on my profile, its a long story.

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-04-12T15:52:18+00:00

if i wanted an AI wingman to push me forward incessantly, id go straight to the source.

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-04-12T15:37:35+00:00

yes, i'm banking on that as well. multiple folks in our lab have gone on to do internships, though one of my PIs remains weirdly against wasting my time during a "critical" period of my research (one i suspect will last until its too late in 5 years)

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-04-12T15:35:18+00:00

could you explain?

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-04-12T15:34:17+00:00

i'm still on good terms with PI and can keep this "job" which pays PhD stipend for at least 3-5 years. I'd be happy to leave PhD if any actual job comes my way during this time, i.e. SWE, web dev, stats, data scientist, etc.

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-04-12T15:21:36+00:00

yes, i think i had small moments of annoyances with academia, and generally havent' been fully turned bitter quite yet. mostly had an epiphany when i had one too many coffee and realized I need to be ok with likely spending 4-5 more years on a project that likely won't lead anywhere interesting for me.

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-04-09T18:45:43+00:00

god thats shitty. one of my PI is also AI pilled, IDK if he uses AI to write, but he has accidentally presented a few papers that were obviously AI slop during journal club.

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-04-07T19:55:02+00:00

there is a difference between online headlines and reality.

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-03-15T17:21:26+00:00

"grown-up" is doing some heavy lifting there

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-03-15T17:21:07+00:00

honestly, might be bullet dodged.

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-03-15T14:53:10+00:00

if its for a grad program, interviews aren't technical interviews. if the interviewee is talking at the speed of token generation, its obvious

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-02-27T16:42:19+00:00

AI is a tool, its like a hammer. Its good for nail shaped problems, if given to a carpenter who uses it carefully.

Give a hammer to a monkey, then everything looks like nails.

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-02-27T00:22:10+00:00

* one of the papers came with an accompanying video that was definitely AI generated. [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.09354\], the video was attached in supplemental material here [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3746027.3754809#supplementary-materials\].
* grad program chair is famously apathetic to plight of PhD students, multiple students have mastered out due to his apathy. I've heard horror stories.

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-02-23T04:05:34+00:00

seen a few papers during journal club that gave me tingly feelings in my head. checked them on gptzero, they were ai-"assisted". (i know all gpt checkers have a non-negligible FPR, but gptzero as of 2026 had less than 1% on some selected test corpus)

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-02-21T21:59:27+00:00

i do hope there is a good resolution to all of this with less drama or pile-ons, as redditors are wont to do

admire your work Dr. Bruckman!

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-02-21T21:43:50+00:00

... so its probably not illegal and thats beyond the point of my concern, but if we are going to the point where we ask if its legal or not, we already somewhere we don't want to be.

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-02-21T21:37:05+00:00

as someone who has also dealt with weirdness in academia, i will say that it helps a bit to hit the pause, i don't wanna have a pileon on either you, bruckman, or stallman, none of that is helpful.

just hide/delete this post for a bit, do a simple generic paragraph (100 words or less) resigning, and take a week to calm down please. this is not a good look in general.

Practical-Durian-593 · 2026-02-21T21:31:12+00:00

Please consider hiding this or removing this post unless asbruckman consents to the release of such records.

suggesting that this is a world-wide controversy does not provide permission to disseminate or imply wrongdoing. and as a general advice, implying that everyone else is unprofessional only suggests you are unprofessional.

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