I see, we don't seem to disagree much.
While Lean is tightening things up after the recent LLM-driven hacks, I agree that bugs are possible. Although usually code that exploits them is obviously aggressive and is deliberately using the more obscure features related to metaprogramming. Also note that my solution has passed the nanoda kernel as well (https://palomar-registry.org/entry?id=PALOMAR-2026-09-03-000...).
That said, again, I never implied that I'm asking mathematicians to "laboriously [check] the generated proof" which is what your parent comment says. The value to mathematicians is knowing that the conjecture is probably right, and knowing the rough path the LLM has taken to it. Instead of checking the Lean proof line by line, what mathematicians are interested in doing (at least, the ones I've been in contact with) is finding a shorter and more direct proof now that they're aware of the outline and main intermediate claims. As for how much value they find in that, I presume they would be able to speak to that when/if they would like to make their research public.
I disagree with the other guy. I think you’re a bad person flippantly participating in the destruction of a culture, wasting people’s time.
> The value to mathematicians is knowing that the conjecture is probably right, and knowing the rough path the LLM has taken to it.
Ah, or is the value to mathematicians that their LLMs can build results on top of this? (In which case, did this do more than save them some tokens?) Or is the value the deep mathematical insight that this result incidentally gives a few mathematicians the confidence to develop for their own personal satisfaction (e.g. if they decide to go and prove it for themselves, and come to the same result after a lot of work)?
(IMO, the deep, scary question: what if it’s soon impossible to make anything at all that anyone who doesn’t know you personally would bother to look at or use? https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/crack)