Yes
yesterday I had to tell a frontier model to translate my code to tla+ to find a tricky cache invalidation bug which nothing could find
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total time to fix from idea to commit - about 15 mins
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Helped: Translating code to TLA+ to find a tricky cache invalidation bug.
Got in the way: GPT 5.4, Gemini 3.1, and Opus 4.6 failed to find the bug directly.
yesterday I had to tell a frontier model to translate my code to tla+ to find a tricky cache invalidation bug which nothing could find - gpt 5.4, gemini 3.1, opus 4.6 all failed. translation took maybe 5 mins, the bug was found in seconds, total time to fix from idea to commit - about 15 mins. …