Dev asks for a mathematician: Claude's Muon optimizer theory is too deep to verify
vxnuaj · x · 2026-10-31
vxnuaj says he "needs a mathematician" because Claude is operating levels above him: the model wrote a mathematical theory of critic exploitability under the Muon optimizer from ablation-derived data, and he can't tell if it's insightful. He later posted the theory, conceding "actually wait this isn't that bad."
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