# Who Verifies the Verifier

DevFeed: [Who Verifies the Verifier](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/who-verifies-the-verifier-40142.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://korbonits.com/blog/2026-05-28-who-verifies-the-verifier/>)

Published: 2026-05-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Alex Korbonits](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/alex-korbonits.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Formal verification](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/formal-verification.md>), [Compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compiler.md>), [Lean](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/lean.md>), [Math and Logic](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/math-and-logic.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [Language models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/language-models.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compiler.md>), [formal-verification](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/formal-verification.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [paper](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/paper.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines whether formal verification can make AI-generated mathematical proofs scalable. It contrasts human review of natural-language proofs with Google DeepMind's approach of generating proofs directly in Lean and using the Lean compiler to verify them, while noting that the system's ability to read existing mathematics remains limited.

## Source excerpt

An AI built the machine I said mathematics needed -- a compiler that verifies proofs for cents instead of expert weekends. The catch is what it still can't read.