10,000 Agents, 88 Hours to Solve CS's Hardest Problems? Skeptic Predicts the Inevitable Backlash
IgorCarron · x · 2026-09-12
Tom Dale claims 10,000 coordinating agents spent 88 hours producing a solution to two of the hardest problems in computer science. Igor Carron responds with a satirical "Roswell Scenario" timeline: Day 0 a blow-up of the Navier-Stokes equations is discovered, Day 1 jokes about infinite energy, and by Day N the patent office updates its process as people ask "so you lied to us about fluid mechanics and therefore climate change." The point: grandiose agent-solves-math claims like this almost certainly won't survive scrutiny.
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