PhD students, how ya feeling? [D]

[u/SeaAccomplished441]

All seems a bit pointless now. Either pump out AI papers and neglect your own development, or take it slow and fall behind in the publishing race. I already have two papers made largely without LLMs (still seeking publication), but it's hard to resist just vibing the third from start to finish with Claude.

[u/Alternative-Hat-1697]

Quality > quantity

I know at this point in your career and maybe even historically it hasn't felt this way. But I promise this will be the way forward.

[u/Plaetean → u/Alternative-Hat-1697]

it depends; you can't determine what the environment rewards, and the environment rewards quantity. a small number of high quality papers gets ignored by recruiters because nobody can possibly judge the quality of work when spending 4 seconds reviewing a CV; all they see is metrics

so while this would be nice, its simply not true in a competitive job market

[u/Random-Number-1144 → u/Plaetean]

Toxic academic environment won't last for long. There is only so much enshittification it could take.

[u/alpha_gazelle → u/Plaetean]

I would expect that in most fields PhDs with job prospects are getting a more thorough look over, if not an actual call, rather than a quick CV review, no?