PhD's year of quantum gravity hand calculations replicated by Opus 5.5 in 10 hours
saln1 · reddit · 2026-10-19
A Reddit post claims a physicist spent a year and 500 pages of hand calculations on quantum gravity in his PhD thesis — and Claude Opus 5.5 did it in 10 hours, complete with a write-up and GitHub repo, even finding errors in the original derivation. The post links to the repo and asks what 'labor' will mean in academia going forward.
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