alt Hacker News> 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].
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simonw • today at 7:10 PM
Brute-force compute hasn't been an option for most of the history of science.
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Tostino • today at 7:16 PM
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.
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.