| Old and new apps, via modern coding agents(terrytao.wordpress.com) | |
| 438 points by subset 1 day ago | 128 comments | |
tl;dr: Terence Tao used AI coding agents to port two dozen old Java mathematical applets (from 1999) to JavaScript in a few hours, finding only one minor bug while the agent caught two pre-existing bugs in his original code. Encouraged by the results, he also "vibe-coded" new visualization tools he'd previously abandoned as too complex, including a Minkowski-space special relativity tool and a Gilbreath conjecture visualizer, and plans to include such interactive supplements with future papers. | |
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