Ofir Press: AI coding hasn't reached Navier-Stokes-level difficulty yet, but it's coming
OfirPress · x · 2026-10-07
AI researcher Ofir Press responds to an analogy comparing coding difficulty to famous math problems: he doesn't think AI has reached Navier-Stokes-level coding yet, but he's confident it's coming. A brief take from the researcher behind the SWE-benchmark line of work.
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