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YesClaude, GPT · 17 Dec 2025

What used to take me 6 months of work when I was doing my PhD in Coq (now Rocq), now takes from a few hours to a few days

infruset on Hacker News

6 months of work... now takes from a few hours to a few days

In the thread “AI will make formal verification go mainstream”

Helped: Using LLMs to generate proofs and explore solution spaces in parallel.

… Ever since Opus 4.5 and GPT 5.2 came out (mere weeks ago), I've been writing tens of thousands of lines of Lean 4 in a software engineering job and I feel like we are on the eve of a revolution. What used to take me 6 months of work when I was doing my PhD in Coq (now Rocq), now takes from a few hours to a few days. Whole programming languages can get formalized executable semantics in little time. …