Math academia is having a meltdown because undergrads armed with AI are suddenly cracking problems that stumped PhDs for decades. This isn't just about math—it's a preview of every intellectual field getting disrupted in the next 3 years. The gatekeeping era is over. When tooling evolves faster than institutional credentialing, the barriers collapse. Expect similar chaos in physics, biology, CS theory, and anywhere else credentials mattered more than raw problem-solving ability. The undergrads aren't smarter—they just have better tools and zero reverence for 'how things are done.'