Classic STEM Gripe Resurfaces: Proofs 'Left as an Exercise for the Reader'
tdhopper · x · 2026-10-09
tdhopper retweets Joel Grus's quip: maybe you shouldn't have left all those proofs as 'an exercise for the reader' — a familiar textbook gripe reprised in the AI era.
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