An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

Re:An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in dis... by dclowd9901 on Thursday May 21, 2026 @01:27AM (#48218261)

I'm not sure what your background is, but as a staff level engineer, I can assure you they do not. They in fact seem to lack any understanding of architectural intent within a sufficiently large code base. This seems obvious since they can't fit the entire code base in their context at once.

We have many folks (not engineers) at our company using LLMs to open PRs, and every one of these PRs has profound architectural design problems.

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Re:An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in dis... by Supermancho on Thursday May 21, 2026 @08:56AM (#48221895)

> They in fact seem to lack any understanding of architectural intent within a sufficiently large code base. This seems obvious since they can't fit the entire code base in their context at once.

This is a critique of scale, moving the goalpost.

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Re:An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in dis... by dclowd9901 on Friday May 22, 2026 @12:35AM (#48231977)

Nonsense. The goalpost is "this is as good as a senior engineer". A senior engineer can easily understand architectural rationale. Don't dismiss my argument because it's inconvenient to yours.

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