If you are a theoretical physics grad student right now, you might feel tempted to outsource all your work to LLMs. This may feel beneficial in the short term, but it can be harmful in the long term. A PhD is a training period where you develop your knowledge of the subject. You learn to recognize good ideas and promising research directions and spot errors and unpromising avenues. These skills, which are going to remain important in the near future, can't be learned except by doing. More broadly, the ability to think, problem-solve and communicate are going to be your selling points in the job market, whether in academia or industry, at least till the time everyone starts carrying pocket-Wittens. The ability to write prompts won't get you hired. This is not to say you should not use gen ai in your work, but that you should prioritize your development as a researcher over the temptation to optimize quantitative metrics like number of publications.
