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a2ff6eeb0yesterday at 9:29 PM0 repliesview on HN

But it genuinely doesn't require much skill. That's the main selling point, in fact.

Look at the prompts used to make progress on the Riemann conjecture: https://www.anthropic.com/research/riemann-zeta

> Throughout this process, Jarred's input was mostly limited to sending Claude messages of encouragement (mostly variants of “keep going” or “believe in yourself”). This seems to have helped Claude overcome some initial skepticism that it could make meaningful progress.

Jarred is not a mathematician, and not an expert on the Riemann conjecture. What new skill is needed to tell the LLM to believe in itself? What part of that work couldn't have been done by a ten year old?