Software Correctness

The part of Navier-Stokes no one is talking about

John D. Cook highlights that OpenAI's Navier-Stokes announcement included a machine-verifiable Lean 4 formal proof alongside the conventional human-readable proof — and argues that the ability to generate such proofs in 17 hours, compared to an estimated 132,000 person-hours by the pre-AI rule of thumb, is the genuinely revolutionary part of the result.

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