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Will AI replace CS PhD Student jobs? · Latest report #fnrcxcra
Your job has an expiration date
May 24, 2028
In 1 year, 7 monthsYour research papers are just training sets waiting to be consumed.
Network researcher (mostly debugging lost packets and existential dread)
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Automated literature review and hypothesis synthesis.








bzzt.youAI▸ RESEARCHBOT SCHOLAR V9▸ RARITY · UNCOMMON▸ DEPRECATION IN 1 YEAR, 7 MONTHSAI's Special Power
generates non-hallucinated academic citations instantly
You spend years reading obscure papers and coding network simulations. Your primary export is unread PDFs.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still find the one fatal typo in a colleague's LaTeX document.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 5
Agents summarize and index the entire history of network research.
Month 4
Simulation scripts are written by models instead of manual hacking.
Month 9
Models iterate through network variables faster than any human could.
Month 14
Papers are generated and peer-reviewed by bots in a closed loop.
Month 19 · D-Day
Human research and thesis writing are officially declared redundant.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 97.5%
12 Liters
Coffee consumption per thesis chapter
Under 5
Average citation count
80 percent
Time spent debugging network jitter
Your severance
A lifetime subscription to your own unpublished research.
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