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Jesus fucking Christ they're vibing planets now zenodo.org/records/2296...

Not sure that qualifies as ai use. This is just applying algorithms on data. The algorithms seem straightforward… same we’d have used in 1960

Did you read the description of how he did it? He had Claude write all the code and do the analysis. Yes, he asked the questions, and had Claude use bog-standard algorithms. This is how most technical people use AI today. We ask it questions and tell it to write code to do work.

An astronomy grad student can probably do that for cheaper

for cheaper than a $20 / month subscription of Claude? and available whenever you want to work on it, at all hours of day and night? don't think so.

Ai companies are still giving away the tokens ; when the real costs come due , it will change

you're hallucinating that, sorry. you can get access to models 95% as good as Anthropic / OpenAI who serve *open-weight* models basically at cost (look on Fireworks.ai, Together.ai, etc) and it's even cheaper than the top labs.

you can even run open-weight models on a consumer pc/laptop, which can do this the same way.

Cool idea - I’m curious whether those open weight models have the same breadth and depth of knowledge… ie was the success of Claude inside that missing 5% you mention?