--- title: Formal methods and the future of programming | daily.dev description: Jane Street, after 25 years of skepticism, is now building a team focused on formal methods. The shift is driven by agentic coding, which lowers the cost of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/formal-methods-and-the-future-of-programming-pyuugakqh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Formal methods and the future of programming | daily.dev og:description: Jane Street, after 25 years of skepticism, is now building a team focused on formal methods. The shift is driven by agentic coding, which lowers the cost of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/formal-methods-and-the-future-of-programming-pyuugakqh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pYuuGaKqh.png og:image:alt: Formal methods and the future of programming og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Formal methods and the future of programming **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 8 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Jane Street, after 25 years of skepticism, is now building a team focused on formal methods. The shift is driven by agentic coding, which lowers the cost of applying formal methods while raising the stakes for code verification. AI-generated code tends to be buggy and hard to verify, making formal proofs a compelling complement to testing. Jane Street also sees formal methods as a powerful feedback mechanism for AI agents, analogous to how strong type systems already benefit their OCaml-based development. They plan to integrate proof techniques directly into their OxCaml language and are hiring in London and New York. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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