OfirPress: whatever OpenAI just did to math will hit coding in 6-18 months
mark_attar · x · 2026-10-07
Quoting OpenAI researcher OfirPress's reaction to OpenAI's math theorem breakthrough: "I'm not exactly sure how to describe what OpenAI just did to math, but whatever that was, that moment is gonna hit coding in 6-18 months" — adding that he has no idea what that looks like or means. The thread's participants agree that by now, even an agent fully creating a groundbreaking piece of open-source software wouldn't be shocking.