Ofir Press: Math is far more RL-able than SWE, other fields won't move as fast
OfirPress · x · 2026-10-29
Princeton researcher and SWE-bench creator Ofir Press argued that math is much more 'concrete', 'definable', and 'RL-able' than other domains including software engineering, so he doesn't expect progress elsewhere to be as fast as in math. In a follow-up he said he finds it hard to imagine the alternative scenario being plausible.
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