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Mathematics PhD students should pay for frontier AI subscriptions because they are worth the cost.

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any PhD student who was not paying $200 per month to access these tools was crazy

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Author's response to a colleague's surprise that students paid for AI subscriptions; heavily disputed in comments.

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