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Use it as a mentor, a senior with infinite patience but ask it to challenge you, ask also questions about the implementation or a design decision... In other words: do the thinking without being stuck in google searches, errors you don't understand or ugly traces.

I'm not the right person for that...

Yeah, it’s simple: avoid AI completely, and actually do your job. And to seniors: if you’re worth anything as a mentor, tell them to avoid AI and to actually do their job. Furthermore, evaluate AI-based “research” as much as it’s worth (which, to be clear, is not zero but *negative* worth).

I also think there is interesting work to be done on the human/AI work flows and interactions. In particular, ability of AI to spit out what road blocks still remain, which ones are solved and where, and which ones it will work on. Also more info from AI on where it fails and why

thanks!

The difficulty will be that the world university rankings still largely rely on bean-counting. In a sane world those rankings would be irrelevant, but while lack of Govt funding leaves Australian (and UK) Unis so reliant on intl students, those rankings will still heavily influence Uni strategy.

Inria has been doing this (asking for the 5 most important contributions and for a motivation of these) for recruitment and promotion for more than a decade.

Deeply appreciate this. Thanks for putting this out there. I’m seeing a lot of undue doom

If I may Shield them from palace intrigue and unimportant turmoil. Don't Shield them from the new difficulties of the present research funding environment. Walk through it with them. Shielding younger professionals from long term trends doesn't help them learn how to deal with it when you are gone

good riddance.

Oh yeah, I have also heard of it referred to as salami slicing :-)

LOL. I mean twchnically I can't say about CS, but in mathematics, even most humans write very poorly, and the practice of writing like sht is encouraged in top level journals. AIs copy papers and have no teaching experience, so no chance there.

- Relatedly, go for something you are deeply passionate or curious about: if the next couple years are going to be (possibly) a struggle, at least don't let it be about things you don't really like or care about! 5/ (end of personal, biased advice for junior TCS researchers)

Had to Google the acronym LPU. I take this as a good sign. - Senior researcher

Senior researchers have been grasping the prolific increase in LPU with both hands, driven by university hunger for rankings/metrics. As an ECR I think your best shot long-term is to focus on good science, as you say, even if you're disadvantaged in the short term. History will judge you kindly IMO.