Physicist claims Claude produced 36 manuscripts across 18 fields in three months
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-02
Physicist Matthew Schwartz reports his Claude + BootLoops setup explored 400 candidate problems and produced 36 manuscripts across 18 fields with 19 coauthors in three months, including solving a 20-year-old ecology scaling problem, analyzing 5.7B mutation pairs for gene-conversion evidence, porting 4,452 economics papers (30,000 routines), and building a word-stress database covering 6,072 languages. He says Claude was often technically correct; the poster remains skeptical.
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