LLMs Invent Lemmas Before Proving Them
burny_tech · x · 2026-07-19
This summarizes a complaint about LLM reasoning habits: they tend to "invent" an unproven lemma first, and then use that lemma to prove a theorem, making it hard to distinguish between genuine derivation and pure fabrication. Despite this, the speaker still finds it "incredibly useful."
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