Truth Check/1 October 2026
“Running many projects at once (36 manuscripts in 18 fields with 19 coauthors over three months, out of some 400 candidate problems)”
The claim as it travelled: Matthew Schwartz on anthropic.com, 1 Oct 2026.
The claim holds against the page that produced it.
The counts are in Schwartz's guest post on anthropic.com, which also discloses he is a visiting researcher at Anthropic.
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- A physicist's Claude harness produced 36 manuscripts in 18 fields in three months; almost every result was 'technically correct' but unremarkable until a human expert steered it, he says
Matthew Schwartz's open-source BootLoops toolkit let Claude compute 15 Feynman integrals never done before and scan 5.7 billion pairs of human mutations. His caveats: Claude 'loves to declare victory', has no sense of time, and 'you still can't trust its judgment of whether something is interesting'. He is a visiting researcher at Anthropic; BootLoops is his, not Anthropic's.
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