The paper is not written in a very human-readable way, so he's trying to get at the ideas via alternative means instead. What do you see as the problem with it (let alone "crisis")?
For one thing, this is a model that works; see for example Terry Tao's usage of ChatGPT (https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed...) to understand the counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture (though in that case there was no paper to read), and then writing it up (https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/a-digestion-of-the...). This seems exactly parallel here?
For another thing, mathematicians have always followed a practice of not reading papers, or at least not reading them very closely. Writing is a poor medium for the transmission of ideas (Thurston has written about this in many places), and see also https://x.com/littmath/status/2107670379858895001:
> I once had a conversation with Akshay Venkatesh where he was explaining some result to me and I commented “wow, you read that [difficult] paper?” And he replied “well, I imagined I read it.” Made a big impression on me.
and https://x.com/littmath/status/2107827516367110211:
> A lot of people—me included—do not enjoy reading LLM outputs. There’s an alternative!
> Personally I have always been very bad at reading mathematics. But you don’t have to read it by reading it, if that makes sense. Rather, you think in its general vicinity.
For one thing, this is a model that works; see for example Terry Tao's usage of ChatGPT (https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed...) to understand the counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture (though in that case there was no paper to read), and then writing it up (https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/a-digestion-of-the...). This seems exactly parallel here?
For another thing, mathematicians have always followed a practice of not reading papers, or at least not reading them very closely. Writing is a poor medium for the transmission of ideas (Thurston has written about this in many places), and see also https://x.com/littmath/status/2107670379858895001:
> I once had a conversation with Akshay Venkatesh where he was explaining some result to me and I commented “wow, you read that [difficult] paper?” And he replied “well, I imagined I read it.” Made a big impression on me.
and https://x.com/littmath/status/2107827516367110211:
> A lot of people—me included—do not enjoy reading LLM outputs. There’s an alternative!
> Personally I have always been very bad at reading mathematics. But you don’t have to read it by reading it, if that makes sense. Rather, you think in its general vicinity.