OpenAI's math moment will hit coding in 6-18 months, devs speculate on what that looks like
peterjliu · x · 2026-10-07
peterjliu says whatever OpenAI just did to math will hit coding in 6-18 months, though he can't picture what that means. OfirPress frames it not as unsolved problems but as achieving things thought to take 100 years — e.g. an ffmpeg replacement 20x faster with 10x less RAM. They also debate whether unsolved coding problems are essentially math (like P vs NP) and note many thought coding had its math moment 6-12 months ago.
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