They're solving them in a way that isn't particularly interesting because it's near impossible to read and understand, and follow, what the LLM did. It's this way not because it's so smart, but because it's so stupid and still reached the goal by pure force and effort.

I think it does gel. You're right that the comment you're replying to is weakened by that fact.

It gels because they solved about 700 problems out of 4000 attempts. And they threw a ton of resources at each. So "per problem" it's less than 1 in 5, "per token" it's probably not a great record. I mean it's astonishing that it's possible at all of course. But on average, even an expert with a top model will probably have an underwhelming response to the vast majority of prompts.

A relentless low IQ person with broad textbook knowledge and no need to sleep, I guess?