AI's lowering of the barrier to applied math in engineering will be a landmark tech achievement
_onionesque · x · 2026-10-12
The author argues AI will soon be a great general-purpose capability multiplier that quickly becomes invisible, like infrastructure. He highlights that in ordinary engineering and applied contexts—where arcane math isn't required and verification can be reliable—AI is dramatically reducing the difficulty of applying math, a shift he expects to be seen as one of the biggest technological achievements in a few years.
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