"I’m just like, dude, if I’m doing this and I’m super amateur hour physics enthusiast, like what about all those PhD students and postdocs that are super legit

"I’m just like, dude, if I’m doing this and I’m super amateur hour physics enthusiast, like what about all those PhD students and postdocs that are super legit using this tool?" yeah, and there's the difference - i'm not a physicist, but i am a programmer, and i see the same level of enthusiasm for ai slop code from inexperienced programmers (and very lazy, over-optimistic, programming-for-the-money-not-the-love "seniors") but it always ends with "i need someone to fix 16k lines of ai-generated code that _almost_ works" by the time it's more than a toy and actually has to be something useful - kinda like his "pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs", where someone who doesn't actually grasp the domain sees near-victory in places where a seasoned pro recognises a wall of defeat that they've seen before but sure, ai is gonna take over science for us too, just like programming, and that's worked out so well so far