AI Solves Fields Medal Math But Fails Routine Debugging, Expert Jokes
mboehme_ · x · 2026-08-03
Security expert halvarflake highlighted an amusing contrast: LLMs can cost $2,000 in tokens to solve Fields Medal-level math conjectures, yet they fail to debug the routine code bugs he handles daily. He jokingly questioned if this means his daily work is harder than Fields Medal problems.
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