AI Reports · Anthropic · 2026-10-01 · Blog / commentary
Claude-shaped science
Prof. Matthew Schwartz describes how he stopped fighting Claude and let it find problems suited to its strengths, which led to BootLoops, a toolkit for exact calculations in quantitative science. Claude found connections to ecology, population genetics and about a dozen other fields. Schwartz worked with domain experts to steer the toolkit toward questions those fields care about.