Does immediate Lean formalization make discovering new math harder?
LucaAmb · x · 2026-09-28
The author argues that dependence on immediate formal certification (Lean etc.) could make genuinely new mathematical discovery much harder: "Imagine if we couldn't discover calculus until we could formalize it" — a critique of the formalization-first approach in AI for math.
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