Noam says multi-agent deserved under 10% credit for Navier-Stokes solve, sparking debate
scaling01 · x · 2026-09-19
Elie Bakouch and scaling01 clashed over how much credit the multi-agent setup deserves for the AI-assisted Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize proof.
- Noam's quote: solving the problem "was not due to multi-agent" — he wouldn't even attribute 10% of the credit to the agent swarm.
- Bakouch reads this as multi-agent contributing under 10%, noting Noam called it one data point with no single-agent control experiment run yet (a full ablation would be too expensive).
- scaling01 counters: math is highly parallelizable with slightly sublinear scaling, implying a single model would have needed years — the proof wouldn't exist now without multi-agent scaling — so the generational model uplift matters less than the swarm, making the 10% framing untenable.
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