If 10K Agents Can Solve Navier-Stokes, What's Actually Hard? A Viral Scaling Argument
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-09
Reacting to OpenAI's claim that 10,000 agents solved Navier-Stokes, teortaxesTex pushes the implication further: if OpenAI can train a beyond-frontier model in 4 days, what could 100K–1M agents of this caliber not do—to OpenAI's own stack, or global network infrastructure? He predicts fully provably secure operating systems become feasible and asks: "WHAT in our culture is harder?" A provocative big-picture take on agent-scale implications.
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