Why Formal Verification Is Exploding Now: Proofs Get Cheaper, Exploits Costlier
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-25
Quoting Victor Taelin's economics-first take on why formal verification is taking off: proof costs are falling as AI gets more capable, exploit costs are rising as AI gets more dangerous, proofs exterminate exploits, and proof checking doubles as a perfect RL reward for math/coding. Reposter msimoni adds that nobody understands the code LLMs write, so everyone hopes verification is the deus ex machina.
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