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habinerotoday at 7:54 AM1 replyview on HN

No, it's the same for math from what I've seen, aka it can do some of the easy things, usually with a lot of help. People usually mean the Erdos problems (aka "a list of things Paul Erdos thought were neat") and, well, here:

> While Erdős generated a huge number of problems, they are not all equally significant and important. I have, unfortunately, seen some mathematicians grow dismissive of Erdős problems recently, perhaps because they have seen reports of AI solving problems on this site that turned out to be quite simple, and wrongly generalised this to assume that all problems posed by Erdős are amusing novelties, of the level of olympiad problems.

From: https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/blog:5

The rest of the article isn't about AI at all, but I did think it was funny that it describes mathematicians as having more or the same opinion as SWEs.


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helloplanetstoday at 9:29 AM

You're right, definitely as a helper, not a one shot thing.

Here's an example unrelated to the Erdos problems: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23513

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