Anthropic's Fermat Challenge Failed Due to Multi-Agent Coordination, Not Intelligence

Anthropic's first Fermat math challenge failed not due to lack of intelligence, but because dozens of Claude agents lost track of the shared project state. After adopting a better shared-state system, the agents made progress.

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