36 preprints in 3 months: BootLoops AI harness drives cross-field science
DeryaTR_ · x · 2026-10-22
Science magazine reports researchers released 36 preprints produced with BootLoops, an AI harness that works with any frontier model.
- In 3 months, researchers used Claude + BootLoops to cross-pollinate at scale, spotting and solving problems in unrelated fields sharing the same mathematical structures
- Topics range from dating sunspots to analyzing government health policies to deciphering a mysterious medieval manuscript
- The episode fuels the "Science 3.0" claim: borrowing ideas across disciplines is an age-old trick, but AI makes such leaps cheap and frequent
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