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AI will make formal verification go mainstream


ublished by Martin Kleppmann on 08 Dec 2025. Much has been said about the effects that AI will have on software development, but there is an angle I haven’t seen talked about: I believe that AI will bring formal verification, which for decades has been a bit of a fringe pursuit, into the software engineering mainstream.

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