# Visualization shows more compute improves solutions to hard problems

> Original title: A very good visualization about how more compute can be used to improve solutions on very hard problems!

- Source: Boris Power
- Published: 2026-11-04T15:00:40.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/k31f7g59xmelny55856jpfzff
- Original: https://x.com/BorisMPower/status/2117995451555426667

## Summary

Boris Power praises a visualization showing that more compute can improve solutions to very hard problems. The post links to an OpenAI piece on accelerating engineering for the physical world, which describes a Mazda partnership in which FDEs used Astra in Codex to simulate dozens of variations on a car nose.

## Post

A very good visualization about how more compute can be used to improve solutions on very hard problems!

## Quoted post @colintjarvis

> One of the coolest things about our FDE team is that we get to work side by side with Research on frontier problems. Today we’re announcing a new partnership with Mazda that shows what this looks like in automotive engineering.
> 
> Working with Mazda’s aerodynamics engineers, our FDEs used Astra in Codex to build and simulate dozens of variations on the nose of a car. We're excited about the potential applications for LLMs driving these kind of optimizations in manufacuturing, supply chain and more - if you've got these kind of problems, we'd love to hear from you!
> 
> Read on here: https://openai.com/index/accelerating-engineering-for-the-physical-world/

https://x.com/colintjarvis/status/2117959503769469005