Predicting a Lean community schism: human-readable proofs vs AI-generated slop
jacobaustin132 · x · 2026-09-07
In the wake of Claude's Fermat's Last Theorem formalization, @jacobaustin132 argues the most scalable path is a big graph of theorem statements anyone can burn Claude/Codex tokens on, since AI cares less about code quality. With no rush to merge such proofs into Mathlib, he predicts a coming schism between the "human-readable Lean" camp and the "let AI slop dominate as long as it proves everything" camp.
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