Thoughts on math, AI, coding, and other things
Written without AI Everyone is still struggling to understand what exactly happened on October 6 when OpenAI dropped its 372-theorem “mathocalypse”. Is AI "the end of math as we know it"? Is mathematics research as a human enterprise dead, or is AI only going…
In the wake of OpenAI's announcement of their solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, and the many other announcements of AI-discovered research breakthrough we've been seeing on a weekly — sometimes daily — basis, it's safe to say mathematicians are anxious…
Disclosure: this blog is written without AI. Every single word you read in any of the posts here came from my brain (including the word "disclosure" at the beginning of this sentence: an ironic choice, I hope it's clear). This needs to be stated…
Related post: A historic day for mathematics The last several weeks have seen a dizzying array of announcements of noteworthy (and in some cases very significant) mathematical advances discovered autonomously by AI models. Here is a timeline of the recent…
Related post: Can Claude Code get a job as an ML engineer? I’ve been interested in 3D animation, and particularly in Blender, for a number of years. Earlier this year, as Claude Code has exponentially lowered the barriers for creating anything code-based, I…
I used to read a lot of science-fiction growing up, including voraciously reading anything I could lay my hands on that was written by Isaac Asimov. It's been fun to see how over the last few years Asimov's work has become more relevant than ever: as humanity…
May 20, 2026 will be remembered as an important milestone in the history of mathematics. It marks the first time when a breakthrough on an important, well-known mathematics research problem was made by an artificial intelligence.
I enjoy working with Claude Code, and find it to be a pleasant and articulate conversation partner. Among its (his?) many talents are its being very good at reading my intent based on sometimes incomplete information, and being able to rephrase my request in…
I was watching my wife talk to Claude Code the other day and noticed that she asked it to "please" do something. This caught my attention because in my own sessions I've made a point to not use the word "please" (sometimes even consciously suppressing an urge…