3Blue1Brown's new video frames math against AI — only asking OOD questions will remain
_Stocko_ · x · 2026-10-19
Stocko reads 3Blue1Brown's latest math video as portraying mathematicians' activities — proving theorems, asking questions, theory building, applying theory — as successive bulwarks that AI defeats one by one ("Anything you can do I can do better"). Given current coding agents, the author predicts the last bastion standing will be asking out-of-distribution questions.
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