AI: Physics
Matthew Schwartz, The AI Grad Student. (published 23 March: why did no one tell me about this sooner?)
Drop everything and read this.
Schwartz works closely with Claude Code as he would with a second year graduate student, setting an original scientific problem that is bound to succeed, and then supervising the student in detail while letting the student do (and check) the work. The result was a solid theoretical physics publication that took two or three weeks, from literature review to tweaking fonts in the figures.
This work was performed in December 2025, and Claude Code is better nowadays than it was, way back in December. The results square with my own experience. I’ve been estimating a velocity boost of 3x. Schwartz says 10x. Astonishing either way.