FV expert: AI folks' view of formal verification is 15 years out of date
tianyin_xu · x · 2026-10-01
Grigore Roșu argues that the AI community's understanding of formal verification is stuck 15 years in the past — equating FV with VC-generation plus SMT solving, or translating programs into Lean/Rocq/Dafny/Boogie.
Modern FV instead builds on complete, well-tested formal semantics of real programming languages as a trust base, avoiding reliance on translators or convenient abstract semantics. His team RV claims 25+ years of mature large-scale FV technology aimed specifically at AI-generated code, and is soliciting collaborators with domain-specific languages. The core question raised: AI can now write proofs in minutes, but who checks what exactly was proven?
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