'Susan in marketing': the joke about OpenAI sprint-planning the Hodge Conjecture
himanshustwts · x · 2026-09-12
A widely shared AI-community joke: "Daily standup at OpenAI must go crazy — great work on Navier-Stokes. Any update or blockers on the Hodge Conjecture? I told Susan in marketing we'd have it by end of week."
It pokes fun at frontier labs treating the hardest math and science problems like regular sprint tasks. The retweet adds just one line: "Susan in marketing."
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