--- title: Matthew Schwartz describes using AI, notably Claude, to... description: Physicist Matthew Schwartz describes shifting his approach to using Claude as a research collaborator: rather than treating it like a human scientist, he... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/matthew-schwartz-describes-using-ai-notably-claude-to-tackle-claude-shaped-scientific-problems-w-fugtw74lq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Matthew Schwartz describes using AI, notably Claude, to tackle "Claude-shaped" scientific problems where LLM capabilities like coding and data parsing excel. This led to BootLoops, a toolkit facilitating quantitative science calculations | daily.dev og:description: Physicist Matthew Schwartz describes shifting his approach to using Claude as a research collaborator: rather than treating it like a human scientist, he... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/matthew-schwartz-describes-using-ai-notably-claude-to-tackle-claude-shaped-scientific-problems-w-fugtw74lq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fuGTW74LQ.png og:image:alt: Matthew Schwartz describes using AI, notably Claude, to tackle "Claude-shaped" scientific problems where LLM capabilities like coding and data parsing excel. This led to BootLoops, a toolkit facilitating quantitative science calculations og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Matthew Schwartz describes using AI, notably Claude, to tackle "Claude-shaped" scientific problems where LLM capabilities like coding and data parsing excel. This led to BootLoops, a toolkit facilitating quantitative science calculations **[Andrew M](https://daily.dev/sources/dup6ye036hupdshygexyu)** · [@andrewma](https://daily.dev/andrewma) · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Physicist Matthew Schwartz describes shifting his approach to using Claude as a research collaborator: rather than treating it like a human scientist, he looked for 'Claude-shaped' problems suited to its actual strengths—coding, breadth of knowledge, and parsing papers at speed. This led to BootLoops, an open-source toolkit for exact calculations in quantitative science, built around the semi-numerical S-matrix bootstrap technique from particle physics. Claude found that the same mathematical machinery applied across wildly different fields, including ecology (testing neutral biodiversity theory), population genetics (gene conversion in genomic data), economics (replication package auditing), linguistics (a 6,072-language word-stress database), cosmology, and more. Schwartz worked with domain experts to steer technically correct but scientifically unremarkable findings toward results those fields actually value. The piece details workflow setups (parallel Claude Code sessions on cloud VMs), failure modes (overconfident 'done' claims, poor time estimation, grinding instead of building better tools), and reflects on how agentic AI changes graduate training, credit attribution, and the pace of scientific discovery. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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