Claude math result row: prompter was an Anthropic employee, authors say they were the "digesters"
analisereal · x · 2026-10-07
Amid debate over Claude solving a math problem, user @analisereal clarifies the division of labor: the prompter was an Anthropic employee, not the two authors, whose role was as "digesters" communicating what Claude found.
Critic @JAldrichPL pushes back: humans identified the problem, and the authors still worked to understand, simplify, strengthen and extend the algorithm, derive additional consequences, make the presentation accessible, and verify the problem encoding — all of which matter. The dispute centers on how to apportion credit between humans and AI.
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