Physicist used Claude and BootLoops to produce 36 papers in three months

Harvard physicist Matthew Schwartz used the open-source BootLoops harness with Claude to produce 36 manuscripts across 18 fields in three months. The results often became scientifically valuable only after human experts stepped in. Schwartz advises checking everything yourself.

Why it matters: It is a concrete look at AI-driven research output at volume, and the bottleneck it exposes is expert verification, not generation. That echoes the flood of low-quality AI submissions hitting bounty programs and conferences, and suggests review capacity will limit AI science.