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I wonder what he's feeling about this. Formalizing Fermat's last theorem was a huge undertaking, and has been a big part of his career for some time. Now the announcement has been made, and even if there is more work that he wants to do, he has in some ways been scooped by an LLM.

Fortunately he is a very well-established mathematician, so career-wise he will likely be fine. But if an early-career mathematician gets scooped this badly it could be career-ending.

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Being in a career that is scoopable by a dev with no special expertise running an agent is career ending



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