16M Lines of Formalized Code: Axiom Builds the Stacks Project into a Mathematical City
Most people think large-scale vibecoding will only produce garbage code. Today Axiom released a full formalization of the Stacks Project, 16M lines, with optimized code quality, while preserving its highly interconnected structure, and accompanied by a mathematical city video.
Axiom today released a 16M-line formalized version of the Stacks Project. The Stacks Project is a large, multi-year collaborative project in algebraic geometry and is regarded as key infrastructure for modern mathematics. Formalization usually means writing definitions, theorems, and proofs as machine-checkable code.
Most people's intuition about large-scale vibecoding is that once the volume gets large, the code turns into slop. Axiom treats this release as a counterexample: 16M lines, with code quality optimized, while the highly interconnected structure of the Stacks Project is also preserved. Line count is only scale; the real difficulty is keeping the dependency network from falling apart. Mathematical formalization is like a city: individual buildings can be constructed, but the road network and utilities are the hardest to maintain.
The release includes this video, calling it a mathematical city. For people working on AI code generation, what is worth watching is whether, after scaling, the structure can still be read, queried, and continue to grow; the number 16M by itself does not say much. Axiom's release provides a checkable sample. Yao Fu reposted this message.
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发布时间: 2026-11-05 18:29