Ed Witten + Claude goes viral: 'It's officially over'
burny_tech · x · 2026-11-05
jdlichtman shared an example of working with Ed Witten—widely regarded as the greatest living theoretical physicist—alongside Claude, and curiouswavefn amplified it with "It's officially over," a viral moment suggesting top-tier theoretical physics research is starting to pair with frontier AI models.
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