Robert Penner, inventor of ease-in, says AI fuels his personal Renaissance of deep math projects
johnlindquist · x · 2026-09-11
Robert Penner, the inventor of the ease-in easing function, says he's in a "personal Renaissance" — using AI to tackle deep math projects that would have required years in a PhD program without it, while escaping the friction of debugging dependency towers. Developer John Lindquist amplified the post, reminding people that Penner invented the math many use daily.
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