Anthropic's Fermat Run Failed on Lost Agent State, Solved With a Proof DAG
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-06
Chi Wang cites Anthropic's retrospective: its first Fermat run failed not on math, but because dozens of Claude agents lost track of shared project state.
The team only succeeded after adopting Prove2Me's DAG of statements and proofs. The takeaway: at multi-agent scale, "memory" must be external, structured infrastructure rather than prompts. The retweeter muses what if every scientific problem had a DAG.
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