News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry. Parent comment

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.

[ Parent | on HN ]
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.
[ Parent | on HN ]