I don't know about you, but I got a lot of satisfaction from finding proofs for my math problem sets despite the fact that they were "solved problems"
Good for you, but that's not a job, and no one is going to award you a PhD for doing that.
Moreover, that's precisely the kind of work that AIs can do. So why would anyone pay you to do that, whether or not you find it satisfying?
That's not an accurate representation of this conversation.
But the fact of the matter is that the purpose of my program and of research isn't to work on solved problems but to solve new ones. And the machine seems to be better than me in basically every way in this regard.
It's an interesting thought experiment: how many human lives would cost you one LLM?