Insider rebuts claim that agent swarm contributed only 10% to Navier-Stokes proof
scaling01 · x · 2026-09-18
Pushing back on the claim that the "agent swarm" component contributed only 10% to the Navier-Stokes discovery, the author calls it plainly false. The simplest reason: even if a single sequential agent were 100x more efficient than the swarm (which it isn't), it would still take roughly a year to generate the tokens needed for the proof — the proof wouldn't exist without the swarm. He adds the caveat that reachability still had to hold: the problem's probability of a proof existing was likely around 0.00001%, and the swarm's role was finding it under that condition.
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