Harvard physicist lets Claude find 'Claude-shaped' problems, builds BootLoops for AI-accelerated science
UltraRareAF · x · 2026-10-08
- In an Anthropic guest post, Harvard physics professor Matthew Schwartz describes stopping fights with Claude and instead letting it find "Claude-shaped" problems—research questions suited to current LLM capabilities.
- This led to BootLoops, a toolkit for exact calculations in quantitative science. Because similar calculations recur across disparate fields, Claude surfaced connections to ecology, population genetics and a dozen other areas.
- Early connections were technically correct but scientifically unremarkable, so Schwartz steered BootLoops toward questions domain experts actually care about—a workflow of AI finding links plus experts setting direction.
- Core thesis: AI-accelerated science comes from reshaping problems around the model's capability profile, not from forcing it at intractable classics.
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