{"slug": "16-year-old-used-ai-to-disprove-professor", "title": "16 Year old used AI to disprove professor", "summary": "A 16-year-old researcher used a custom GPT-5.5 harness to disprove a case in enumerative combinatorics proposed by Professors Chan and Pak at UCLA and Rutgers in 2024. The work is detailed in arXiv paper 2607.10084, where a supervisor model directed multiple solver agents that reported findings every 90 minutes. The teenager credited Professor Chan for guidance and expressed excitement about future models.", "body_md": "In 2024 Professors Chan and Pak at UCLA and Rutgers proposed a case in enumerative combinatorics.\nAt 16 years old, I used a custom GPT-5.5 harness to disprove this case.\narxiv:2607.10084\n1/3\n\n- I used a custom harness built around GPT-5.5. A supervisor model directed several solver agents, every 90 minutes, they reported discoveries, failed approaches and remaining gaps. The supervisor then updated their instructions and redirected the search. 2/3Excited to continue working with new and better models on the frontier. Thank you to Professor Chan for the important guidance -\n[arxiv.org/abs/2607.10084](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10084)3/3 - Very cool!\n# Join the conversation", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/16-year-old-used-ai-to-disprove-professor", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/MaseehG_/status/2084327646209392907", "published_at": "2026-08-03 19:32:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-03 19:52:56.990343+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-agents", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["GPT-5.5", "UCLA", "Rutgers", "Professor Chan", "Professor Pak", "arXiv"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/16-year-old-used-ai-to-disprove-professor", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/16-year-old-used-ai-to-disprove-professor.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/16-year-old-used-ai-to-disprove-professor.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/16-year-old-used-ai-to-disprove-professor.jsonld"}}