littmath: Claude's FLT proof bypassed the natural collaboration a human project would have had

littmath · x · 2026-09-07

Commenting on the attribution debate around Claude's FLT formalization, littmath says he has no strong view on what Anthropic should have done, but highlights a key difference: in a normal human project collaborators would have naturally teamed up, whereas Claude took a very different path. A better approach might have been talking to Kevin Buzzard about his project's goals—high-quality reusable formalization of intermediate results—and serving those alongside the final result.

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