alt Hacker NewsJeez. While I obviously can't talk at all about the math, I've noticed a few things:
a) The model thinks on some questions while straight answers on others. (I wish I'd knew from the questions if this is somehow correlated to hard tasks or "inventive" tasks, but that's way out of my league).
b) The model sometimes pushes back. Again, I'd wish I knew if it was warranted, but I counted 2 instances where it said "yes, but with caveats", one where it said "mostly yes but with this correction" and one where it said "careful here, because x y z".
c) The model did q&a + pdf ingestion + code writing + more q&a + thinking + more q&a, for a looong while, while seemingly staying on topic (at least Terrence Tao seems to think they're still productive, so I'll trust that).
This is what model progress is, not number goes up on xBency or yBencher. Damn.
The "yes, with caveats" thing is boilerplate for both Codex and Claude since this current generation.
It's actually a bit annoying because it primes you to think that the caveats are real, but most of the time it's just something terribly obvious and not a real caveat, but the model probably has some system prompt that tells it to always consider caveats or something like that.
Same as the model starting every reply with a commitment to be "honest". LLMism are fun but I tend to just suppress them via AGENTS.md because they distract me