I drilled down on this with Tom. He thinks that it might not have happened without Claude Code, but Claude was used to organize all of the symbols, and to run I think it was 100,000 simulations to assess whether or not he had an actual insight, or if he just randomly got lucky. Claude did NOT crack the code. Significant supporting role though.

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BretonForearm 2 hours ago | parent [-]

So Claude Code was used to generate software that ran simulations? I don't think LLMs in and of themselves can execute simulations, esp. a specific, non-single digit count like 100k.

	▲	nilkn 12 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Codex and Claude Code can absolutely design, implement, and orchestrate large simulations. Yes, they do so by writing code, but they can also run the programs they write, debug them, deploy them on large amounts of compute, optimize memory usage, study results, try to achieve benchmark targets, etc. I've done it several times on completely unrelated problems. It's actually one of the coolest use cases for these tools outside of writing normal software.
	▲	Kosturdistan 33 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I don't know if the agent ran the simulations or if the agent built software that ran the simulations. But Claude was used to run the simulations.
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