"Put LLMs on something I can understand": a joke call for exact TSP solutions
andimarafioti · x · 2026-09-09
Developer Andi Marafioti jokes that he's tired of LLMs solving math he can't understand (a nod to OpenAI's claimed Navier–Stokes progress) and asks models to tackle something easier to grasp — like an efficient exact solution to the traveling salesman problem.
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