What Terence Tao thinks about coding agents

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1. 20 Mar 2026

   Our readingWhen no technique works and the AI starts suggesting things, chasing those suggestions down usually wastes more time than it saves.

   Their wordsUm and then they can kind of suggest random things and it it but it it it um often I find that trying to chase them down and make them work and find they don't work, it wastes more time than it saves.

   ↗Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIyoutube.com 10th of 24 in this recording