Terence Tao Puts AI Coding Agents to Work - AI the News That's Fit to Prompt #71
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| SUNDAY, JULY 12, 2026 · VOL. 1, NO. 71 · 5 STORIES |
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Terence Tao Puts Coding Agents to Work on 40 Years of Math Apps
The most celebrated living mathematician handed an AI agent two dozen dead Java applets and watched them come back to life in modern JavaScript in an afternoon. It even found two bugs in his original 1999 code. His takeaway: the threshold for what is worth building just dropped to almost nothing. |
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