> Jarred prompted Claude to try again, and it spent a day and a half coordinating about 60 Claude subagents, which this time went much deeper: between them, they ran 2,400 shell commands and wrote hundreds of Python scripts.1

If there is anything to learn from the history of science, it is that breakthroughs happen via better or new theory and not by brute-force compute [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.27794

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benswift 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nah, the main lesson is that fundamentally new ways of doing things are only accepted once the old guard are all dead [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...

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famouswaffles 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This isn't 'brute-force'. It's just time-compressed. You could imagine a human(s) getting this result similarly, but it would take months/years.

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simonw 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Brute-force compute hasn't been an option for most of the history of science.

	▲	sosodev 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Very true. Humans have historically tried to systematically reduce the search space and only dedicate their "compute" to things that seem highly likely to yield results.

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Tostino 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sometimes you just need to put in some effort to looking through the search space, not even exhaustively. This seems to be able to do automate doing that work.