Lean theorem prover joke: 'kstep needs to simp harder' and monoculture attention

mgostIH · x · 2026-10-14

A joke about theorem prover monoculture: a Lean tool's error message reads "kstep needs to simp harder #146," riffing on how Lean sucks up nearly all the math-AI community's attention while other provers get ignored. "simp" is Lean's core automated rewriting tactic.

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