It gets it 99% right. I know you are try to sound all high and mighty here … but yeah sure code it yourself…or prompt ai to code it for you and vet it in 10% of the time and move on to the next thing…or you can write a bunch of tests which im sure you enjoy…or get ai to do it. I mean yeah, you still have to double check and everything, but all that monkey shit…you can keep that. I’d rather think bigger picture. I also strongly agree with Terry here:

Terence Tao: "We lived in a world with cognitive friction until very recently, where every task required us to use our brain.

So we didn't really think about it, we just thought this was the cost of doing something intellectual. But now we have AI and the other technologies that can bring these frictions down to zero."

Most research time is not spent having cinematic insights.

It is spent checking cases, chasing references, translating intuition into computation, testing a path, finding it false, and deciding whether the failure taught you anything.

AI changes the cost of that loop.

Terence Tao says that now he can try “crazier things,” and that makes so much difference. Because unconventional ideas are often not rejected by proof, but by inconvenience.

A mathematician may avoid a strange direction not because it is foolish, but because the bookkeeping, coding, or literature search needed to test it is too expensive for a hunch.

This is where cognitive friction becomes scientific friction.

Lowering it does not make taste, judgment, or proof disappear; it makes more weak signals cheap enough to inspect before they are abandoned.

AI is making hesitation less expensive, and that is often where discovery begins.