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# Vibe physics: The AI grad student

## Retrieval answer

Harvard physics professor Matthew Schwartz reports supervising Claude Opus 4.5 through a theoretical-physics calculation: resumming the Sudakov shoulder in the C-parameter distribution.

Harvard physics professor Matthew Schwartz reports supervising Claude Opus 4.5 through a theoretical-physics calculation: resumming the Sudakov shoulder in the C-parameter distribution. He says the project took two weeks rather than the usual year and involved more than 110 drafts, 36 million tokens, and over 40 hours of local CPU compute. Schwartz characterizes the result as technically rigorous, while also stressing that the model was sloppy enough to require domain expertise for evaluation. This is a first-person account published by Anthropic, not an independent performance assessment or evidence of autonomous end-to-end science.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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