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It has been disincentivising links for quite some time, so more opinions and fluff, fewer quality posts and links to external materials.

Here we know that software engineers, and entrepreneurs, vary greatly by their skill, knowledge and motivation.

Why do we expect that for other professions it works differently?

I fully agree, thank you for this warning.

How Opus 5.5 imagines these cities is a question for Opus. The real experience is how we imagine - and I believe there are no two people who have exactly the same mental image of an invisible city.

Pure mathematics, in my view, is not science, not craft - it is art.

AI, however powerful, is a tool, only as important as the amount it helps mathematicians. Creating mathematics without human understanding is as sound as mass producing copies of Michelangelo David.

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture [...] yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.” - Bertrand Russell, "From The Study of Mathematics" (1902)

“A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. [...] The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.” - G. H. Hardy, "A Mathematician's Apology" (1940)

You can. Not only the code is there, but also an interactive editor.