It is important to center the fact that Claude built on the approach that my colleague Lance developed, used tools that the field has developed, and (from what I have been told) used results in some of our recent papers. It’s a huge accomplishment, but should be framed as a combination of human and AI contributions. (To @AnthropicAI’s credit, I think the article does a pretty good job of this.) The fact that Claude can take a single people and figure out how to integrate the knowledge and use the tools as amazing, but it’s not coming out of the vacuum. This is an important opportunity for us to start to frame these developments, recognizing the human contributions and the power of these new tools. This is not an exemplar of the bitter lesson!