Ex-OpenAI's Yacine: AI Bad at Coding but Great at Math — "I Could Build a Better Model"
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-28
Former OpenAI member Yacine tweeted that he can't understand how AI can be so bad at programming yet so good at math, then added he knows precisely why, and should honestly just try building a better model himself — "it probably isn't hard."
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