Claude-shaped science

Summary: In this guest post, Prof. Matthew Schwartz returns to describe a new approach to AI-accelerated science. In Vibe Physics, Schwartz discussed similarities in capability between Claude and a physics graduate student. Here, he describes what happened when he stopped fighting Claude and allowed Claude to find “Claude-shaped” problems: ones best suited to the capabilities of the current generation of LLM tools. This led him to build BootLoops, a toolkit for exact calculations in quantitative science. Because similar calculations often turn up across very disparate areas of science, Claude found connections to ecology, population genetics, and a dozen other fields.

Published by Anthropic Research. This page is a short excerpt; the full text is theirs.