I Spent 2 Years Building a Pipeline. Then Claude Used It to Solve a 300-Year-Old Math Problem.
A developer spent two years building a mathematical pipeline. Claude used it to find a counterexample to the 300-year-old Jacobian conjecture. The real lesson: the bottleneck in AI-driven discovery isn’t smarter models, but human-built scaffolds that guide AI to explore the right questions. The future belongs to pipeline builders, not prompt engineers.