In reply to @BetterCallMedhi · Sep 9, 2026behind the theatrical PR claim lies the crude reality of brute force test time compute scaling burning hundreds of billions of synthetic tokens across a massive inference flux to coordinate 10000ephemeral agents running recursive verification loops is not cognitive illumination it is the industrialization of exhaustive graph search where narrow reward functions force an army of digital checkers through a pre existing mathematical landscape
Very much agree with you here.
To me, already the initial (knee-jerk) reaction to the rumor to throw "tEn-ThOusAnd agents for EigHty-eIgHT hours" at it feels lame.
Maybe uninspired describes it better. And therefore uninspiring.
What I do know is: I definitely want to learn more about the guys who've been grinding on this on their own time for years now.
All of this even puts my OWN recent "Running the scientific method in an AI autoresearch loop" projects in a new, more critical light as well. Maybe they're lame, too!
Like Alan Watt's "The end is not the goal" quote:
[...] In music, though, one doesn’t make the end of the composition the point of the composition. If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest.
Maybe I skipped to the end too fast, too?
Caveat 1: As a non-mathematician I don't understand the domain. So, what do I know?
Caveat 2: As a non-academic, I don't know if this "scooping" based on a rumor is common practice. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but again. What do I know?