Ofir Press thread: math is more concrete and RL-able than SWE
OfirPress · x · 2026-10-29
Part of Ofir Press's thread: math is more concrete, definable, and RL-able than other fields including SWE, hence faster progress; he marvels that math robots beat self-driving cars, and expects the jagged AI frontier to keep advancing unintuitively.
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