Podcast: AI reportedly solves a Millennium Prize Problem, still over-engineers settings pages
thursdai_pod · x · 2026-09-30
The thursdai podcast (ft. @nisten, @yampeleg and Peter Gostev from Mistral) discusses reports that AI solved a Millennium Prize Problem this week.
@altryne's deadpan reply — "cool, can it build me a settings page without over-engineering everything?" — anchors the episode's theme: the gap between frontier model capabilities and their behavior on mundane everyday engineering tasks.
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