13 points list 2 hours ago 8 comments
evekayser 1 hour ago | parent
I think the same happens now with AI generating code. Nobody will read every line. that's part of the process from now on.
curt15 51 minutes ago | parent
The human who commits a bad change still takes the fall though. Automation doesn't absolve accountability.
Insanity 36 minutes ago | parent
But people think it does, and it’s annoying. The past months I’ve often found mistakes and then heard the response along the lines of “oh Claude wrote that”.
It’s used as an excuse, and then the conversation just moves on. I don’t see a lot of accountability being taken. If anything, senior leadership sees it as a sign of adoption and accepts a certain level of risk.
fhdkweig 1 hour ago | parent
The problem of the proof was that we knew that FCT was true, but we had no idea why. A good/elegant proof teaches us something new about how that problem is related to other problems. It isn't just about getting a true/false answer to the conjecture.
omnicognate 39 minutes ago | parent
Indeed, and the computer aided proof discouraged research into the insightful proof a lot of mathematicians think is probably out there to find. "Proved but not insightfully" is a problem status some mathematicians are starting to think of as closer to "open" than "closed", which is a good thing IMO. (I am not a mathematician, though)
layer8 48 minutes ago | parent
I didn’t know we had invented time machines yet. ;)
jjtheblunt 8 minutes ago | parent
the title made me think of a much older machine that was used for calculating