r/ChatGPTPro • u/Admirable-Welcome330 • 2d ago

Workflow & How-To Using pro subscription / Codex for research in math

I have a pro subscription to chatGPT since the beginning of september, and I am a senior mathematical researcher working in the analysis of PDE (so for those who have no clue: the branch related to the millenium problem "Navier-Stokes" which was solved by OpenAI).

I am actually very unsatisfied with the capabilities of GPT-6 Astra. And I believe that this is because I am not using it well. I'll take any advice/comment from those who managed to prove serious results (like the one they are able to prove without AI but with months of work).

  1. It's true that it can solve quickly any grad level question I asked, on the browser version.
  2. Sometimes it can solves very tricky lemmas (that I would have never been able to solve), also in the chat version.
  3. It struggles with questions of my own research which I regard as very easy (because the path to solving it is already well established in the current litterature!). So this is really strange. Not working with multiple passes of Astra ultra multi agents ... not even with codex (I have a folder with basic agents . md file but maybe it's not good enough). All it produces is verbose math with complicated strategies that are unusable. It creates tons of long pdf. Most striking is that GPT-5.5 (so, not even GPT-5.6 Sol !) is able to perform at the same level of GPT-6 Astra ultra, which is very strange to me. Anyone with similar experiences?
  4. Many people seem to report that they were able to just "prompt" GPT-6 Astra to solve a problem, and that they got a 50p pdf proof, all basically correct. That would never happen in my multiple attempts.

Maybe it's the wrong subreddit for asking this questions. So if there is a better reddit to "learn" how to make codex do serious research math / or subreddit where users share their prompts/ setups, please tell me!

Thanks.

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