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What makes you think they were coherent?

They managed to solve a problem that was beyond current human ability.

That was the net effect (assuming what they solved was the actual problem and not a loophole in the problem statement or a lean bug). My point is they need not all work coherently to do that -- for example, for all we know 3/4 of them went off the rails, their results were pruned, and the relevant results came from a random subset that happened to produce something useful.

If you work with distributed systems, you still call that scenario a success. On the other hand, if the 3/4 of agents going off the rails bring down the whole mission, that is a failure. The latter would have been my guess with current models scaling to 10k agents.

I am not an expert in lean4, but I could follow parts of the high level lean definitions of the problem statement in the repo. A lean bug would be a fun scenario; I am certain this proof will receive the deserved scrutiny, and if it uncovers a bug, it will make the story even more exciting. It is extremely unlikely to be the case, however, because the 10k agents working on the proof didnt use lean, so it would have to be a math logic error that translates to a lean bug—perhaps something the agents picked up during training?

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