julesh on Nostr: While it's cool and good that a bunch of mathematicians are experimenting with proof ...
While it's cool and good that a bunch of mathematicians are experimenting with proof assistants, I'm very confident that one of the biggest consequences is that 20 years in the future, it will finally be sufficiently understood how to write a dependent typechecker, and a bunch of mathematicians are going to learn the hard way the meaning of the term "technical debt"
Published at
2025-12-20 16:44:23 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "980f857bc9eae490cddeb707b10f550f334aa8f2e4977a8bfa66e3b2e1d7c529",
"pubkey": "d2bac57e502c36f3456f190627f30396bbe7df233bf7edbfe35990f3e85cf447",
"created_at": 1766249063,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://mathstodon.xyz/users/julesh/statuses/115752898611164389",
"activitypub"
],
[
"client",
"Mostr",
"31990:6be38f8c63df7dbf84db7ec4a6e6fbbd8d19dca3b980efad18585c46f04b26f9:mostr",
"wss://relay.ditto.pub/"
]
],
"content": "While it's cool and good that a bunch of mathematicians are experimenting with proof assistants, I'm very confident that one of the biggest consequences is that 20 years in the future, it will finally be sufficiently understood how to write a dependent typechecker, and a bunch of mathematicians are going to learn the hard way the meaning of the term \"technical debt\"",
"sig": "fef97f12f0f90db917da5b1e19f664726a29fabf8423fac36b4c744f5b955d06ba8002a89af963130af1061d15800c5710f6c8e4c55a8902bb8ffa7c74749e19"
}
