10,000 agents for 88 hours equal 100 PhD-years of math work
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-09
Hunter Lanier points out that 10,000 agents running for 88 hours is roughly 100 years of working time — meaning a PhD-level math agent solved a problem in the equivalent of a century, which he finds surprisingly realistic. beffjezos amplified it as 'the 100 year PhD thesis,' fueling discussion on scaled agents tackling frontier mathematics.
Related event: 10,000 agents ran 88 hours — a century of PhD-level math work(2 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- All 8 Transformer paper authors left Google, and rival labs captured most of the frontier value — signulll · 2026-10-27
- Anthropic's S-1 pledges AI for curing diseases and serving 4.6B underserved patients — petergyang · 2026-10-27
- Goldman finds statistically significant negative link between AI adoption and US employment growth — ben_j_todd · 2026-10-27
- a16z: World-changing tech makes a chaotic entrance — AI agents are following the same path — a16z · 2026-10-27
- NEJM AI on medical education: mastery requires performing without the machine — BraydonDymm · 2026-10-27
- Dev warns abliterated models could wreck software supply chains with 1000+ transitive dependencies — nitarshan · 2026-10-27