good piece!

“the development and application of methods, the training of minds, the creation of people who know how to think about hard problems. If you hand that process to a machine, you haven't accelerated science. You've removed the only part of it that anyone actually needed.”

https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/

The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

"What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking; there's the real danger." Frank Herbert in Dune