Building Bourbaki: A Math Agent That Can Check Its Own Work
How I built an autonomous agent for mathematical reasoning with SymPy, Lean 4, and structured proof techniques, and what I learned along the way
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How I built an autonomous agent for mathematical reasoning with SymPy, Lean 4, and structured proof techniques, and what I learned along the way
Why giving your coding agent an honest map of what you know and don't know changes everything about how it helps you
How program synthesis led me down a rabbit hole through HoTT and algebraic topology, and back out through LLMs and a toolkit for 1,179 unsolved math problems
How my obsession with home labs led me to understand why coding agents need isolation
How puzzles, strategy games, and chemical mixing in Resident Evil prepared me for coding agents
CLI flags, environment variables, and proxy tricks for agentic engineering (or vibe coding, whatever you call it)
Why AI coding tools forced me to think at a higher level of abstraction
Counterintuitive things after 125 active repositories and 50k+ commits later in 2025