Ultimately AI spend has been one of the largest infusions of funding into the small academic mathematics community in years. Just raw token spend alone probably dwarves whatever research budget increases have gone to that field in the past 5 years. That should tell you something about the economic value of that line of work
I guess a lot of highly intelligent people relied on their smarts to coast to tenure and then all the way to retirement.
Have you worked in academia? I have and I have never seen anyone coast to becoming a tenured mathematics professor.
I don't talk about stuff I don't know about.
Please let me know where one can coast towards tenure, thanks!
Like in any job market: generally you can easily get jobs most people don't want. Problem is that usually the reasons most people don't want the job are also the reasons you don't want the job. Sometimes (rarely?), it's not like that, and that's when you hit the jackpot.
But you've just said that people want to coast toward tenure. My point is that it's extremely competitive position, not something you can coast to or that it's job people don't want. Something tells me that you actually DO talk about stuff you don't know about.
The number of people with PHDs longing for tenured positions comically dwarfs the number of tenured positions available.