Great examples of standing on shoulders of giants:
- Jobs build Apple over decades, but 90% of market cap is from Tim Cook era.
- mathematicians chipped away at Riemann Hypothesis for 150 yrs, proved it for 40% of cases. Guy telling Claude not to give up just got that to 65%.
>tell claude to solve Riemann hypothesis
>fails 650 times
>claude: “im ngmi bro”
>“bro just believe in yourself”
>claude: “ok”
>locks in
>summons 60 copies of itself
>31 million tokens later
>surprises itself
>mathematicians had proven 41.6% of the hypothesis
>claude pushed it to 67.2%
mathematicians: