Zulip Chat Archive

Stream: general

Topic: Leo on "Proof Assistants in the Age of AI"


Kim Morrison (Feb 19 2026 at 01:03):

Just linking to a blog post Leo wrote today: https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026/02/18/proof-assistants-in-the-age-of-ai.html

Wrenna Robson (Feb 19 2026 at 10:19):

God Leo is so good.

Wrenna Robson (Feb 19 2026 at 10:19):

Like I don't mean to gush but I really intellectually respect him and I hope I get a chance to meet him one day and say thanks.

Kevin Buzzard (Feb 19 2026 at 11:16):

Yeah he's very wise, that's how we've got this far!

Edward van de Meent (Feb 19 2026 at 11:18):

Wrenna Robson said:

God Leo is so good.

is there an intentional lack of punctuation here?

Johan Commelin (Feb 19 2026 at 13:08):

The point of "Automation as Game Moves" made me think of the first three levers in https://steve-yegge.medium.com/software-survival-3-0-97a2a6255f7b

Filippo A. E. Nuccio (Feb 19 2026 at 18:09):

Beautiful text! I particularly like the sentence

When the definitions are clear and the tooling is helpful, mathematicians can engage with the formal library directly. When they are obscured by encoding overhead, the gap between informal and formal mathematics remains, no matter how many theorems are verified.


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