The Tool Is Not the Author

On July 19, 2026, Levent Alpöge posted a tweet with a few lines of polynomial that closed an 87-year-old question in mathematics. The coverage that followed put the LLM at the center. That is putting the cart before the horse. Alpöge was a Harvard undergrad, top of his class, Fay Prize for best senior thesis. Cambridge on a Churchill Scholarship . PhD at Princeton in 2020 under Manjul Bhargava ,…