AI + Lean automated theorem proving hits the bitter lesson

johnloeber recounts weekends spent on AI + Lean automated theorem proving, concluding that the 'bitter lesson' prevails again: OpenAI's math breakthroughs rely on informal reasoning, and the window for human-AI collaborative mathematics may be fleeting.

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