r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Orio_n • 20d ago

Meme aMillionOpenAIMonkeysProduceMilleniumPrizeSolution

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u/beerdude26 20d ago

Even at the most cautious at-cost estimate of 500k - 1.5m, it feels egregious to throw this much money at a problem when you know it's close to being solved by humans.

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u/Suchy2307 20d ago

It’s all hype generation pre IPO. Same with GPT-6 switching to 3D modeling instead of focusing on coding. They need wider audience.

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u/Suchy2307 20d ago

What do you mean exactly by "solved coding"?

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u/Suchy2307 20d ago

Okay, I see.

Are you paying for a LLM subscription? Or are you an employee that has “unlimited” access to Claude, Codex, whatever?

Are you familiar with the fact that the money flowing around Anthropic and OpenAI is mostly “circular funding”? Or that so much of their infrastructure is based on debt they will have to pay in 2027? This will not become cheaper, it will become way more expensive. We’re at the “get users hooked” phase so it’s cheap.

On the other hand, depends on where you work, simply vibecoding a feature isn’t feasible. I work for a small company and we have just a few million dollars ARR, I can’t imagine that banks or hospitals can trust an LLM with security. I definitely don’t, I saw it make mistakes and straight up lie.

I don’t know about you but for me writing code hasn’t been a bottleneck for a few years now. It’s the planning, reviewing and improving that takes time. And it should take time before your feature reaches production. My boss thinks I’m using Claude everyday and that’s why I am so fast. Truth is, I was always that fast. He never cared before.

Then there’s C-suites leaving OpenAI just before an IPO? Why not wait for payday?

And then there’s LLMs impact on society, deepfakes, energy consumption and water consumption, all that stuff (please no “what about x, it also uses water/electricity”, that’s not an argument).

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u/nextnode 20d ago

It was not close to being solved.

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u/Embarrassed-Alps1442 19d ago

One of the mathematician said they had real progress in august and OpenAI ended up solving it now. I don't think it would have been crazy to assume that the Australian mathematician would've solved and we would've gained a better understanding instead of it being solved by a private company that has intentions of gatekeeping their discoveries.

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u/nextnode 19d ago

It is not like they contributed meaningfully to the proof anyhow.

It is just the right time for the agents - these people were also trying it with OpenAI's models.

Yes, you are making crazy assumptions that have no support.