In the last 2-3 years AI has taken over most programmers’ classical jobs and in the last 2-3 months most of mathematicians’ classical job. Programmers have by and large embraced the change while mathematicians seem to be mostly resisting it. Maybe this explains the difference.
It's interesting to think about how much, if at all, the positive sentiments expressed here are appropriate to mathematicians. His main reason for optimism comes at the end: that now that "chiselling code by hand" is no longer necessary, "we can build amazing things". 1/3View quoted post on X
