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fidotron | on: GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
Do we employ mathematicians in customer service roles?
nicce | parent | next
Luckily the job situation for pure mathematicians was already bad.
akoboldfrying | root | parent
I got a solid laugh out of this.
sscaryterry | parent
Thats a silly and obtuse comment.
fidotron | root | parent
You mean the answer betrays the point: customer service is surprisingly hard, we just have a large number of people that are capable of doing it.

This is what the whole https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/elephants.pdf is about.

sscaryterry | root | parent
I stand by my point, you've not read the author's intent, instead you decided to twist words.
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