The speaker considers the work impressive because the team designed the harness intelligently despite the models being relatively weak at the time.

“um let me just say this first this work was really impressive i think what what they showed here was like they took a”

“a time when the models weren't that good”

“and they managed to be very very smart about like what the harness does i remember for this at least like yeah like alpha geometry i guess that was a year before this but it was very cool they took um they took it to the max and they like designed uh i don't know i'd say i i'm not too big on competitive math but i think like gdm it's sort of a shame like everyone i've talked to about gdm kind of has the same opinion which is that”