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This is a weird moment. I have a hunch that we'll look back later and tell ourselves stories in which it seemed obvious where things were going. So I wanted to lay down a little time capsule and register just how confusing everything felt at the time. This is a personal view from the trenches.
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If you're a normal person, you may feel that AI has been good at math for a long time.But for "real" math, this is roughly what it felt like:
When
Feeling
2024
LLMs are toys
Summer 2025
LLMs are interesting toys
Early Autumn 2025
LLMs can do useful stuff sometimes
Mid Autumn 2025
…a lot of stuff
Late Autumn 2025
…a lot
Early 2026
holy god
Even having been astonished by AI progress in the past, it was still astonishing to see AI move in a matter of months from a mildly-useful toy to something that many people now consider almost impossible to do without.
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Personally, I'd say that current AI makes me around 50% more productive at "doing math". That's despite the fact that AI can now often do in a few minutes things that would have taken me hours to [...]
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The original text contained 4 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.
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First published:
October 27th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HuQAuWjc2Z5tqCjyw/scattered-thoughts-on-how-doing-math-feels-these-days
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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If you're a normal person, you may feel that AI has been good at math for a long time.But for "real" math, this is roughly what it felt like:
When
Feeling
2024
LLMs are toys
Summer 2025
LLMs are interesting toys
Early Autumn 2025
LLMs can do useful stuff sometimes
Mid Autumn 2025
…a lot of stuff
Late Autumn 2025
…a lot
Early 2026
holy god
Even having been astonished by AI progress in the past, it was still astonishing to see AI move in a matter of months from a mildly-useful toy to something that many people now consider almost impossible to do without.
2.
Personally, I'd say that current AI makes me around 50% more productive at "doing math". That's despite the fact that AI can now often do in a few minutes things that would have taken me hours to [...]
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Outline:
(00:28) 1.
(01:03) 2.
(01:49) 3.
(02:31) 4.
(03:10) 5.
(03:50) 6.
(04:37) 7.
(06:56) 8.
(07:44) 9.
(08:23) 10.
(08:44) 11.
(08:58) 12.
(09:41) 13.
(10:42) 14.
(11:41) 15.
(12:04) 16.
(13:11) 17.
(14:00) 18.
(14:46) 19.
The original text contained 4 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.
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First published:
October 27th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HuQAuWjc2Z5tqCjyw/scattered-thoughts-on-how-doing-math-feels-these-days
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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