Comment by DCKP

I have had this conversation with my PhD students yesterday. I am 100% sure that all of their problems can be solved by publicly-available models now (I solved a case of one myself as a test, it took 15 minutes). So the challenge for them is to see how much they can accomplish in their allotted period, and still pass a defence on at the end of it all. The PhD defence is going to become all about a test of understanding, not a test of quantity of publication.

A much bigger issue is: What is the point of any research mathematician publishing anything now? I really hope that one positive effect of all this will be to finally topple the awful peer review model we currently have, with the biggest publishers gatekeeping with extortionate fees.