Astronomer builds his dream learning tool in ~5 hours with Opus 5.5, now live
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-09-25
Astrophysicist @jwuphysics says this is the tool he wished he had when starting out in astronomy: he spent a few hours designing how it should work, then about 5 hours implementing it with Opus 5.5, and it's now live. A concrete example of frontier coding models letting researchers ship domain-specific tools in a day.
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