Did anyone read the blogpost? They did publish a pre-print:

  > Our work to understand the primary function of ARTs is ongoing. However, we think it is important to share such findings early, both to demonstrate Claude’s capabilities and to give the broader community insight into what we’re working on. We have released a pre-print (here) that discusses this in more detail.

Medical advances are more important than post docs

Why do you think they're going to be treated badly? Right now, I think it's kinda accepted that the people best suited to directing AI for programming tasks are programmers - only we operate at a higher level.

Claude's going to be a similar productivity booster to researchers and postdocs.

I'd be totally lost talking to an AI about biochemistry.

> The market for entry-level programmers has already declined, but at least they were somewhat in demand and made reasonable salaries. Now what happens to post-docs who already make almost nothing and often get treated like crap?

Waiting for frontier labs to get into Political Science to show that SOTA models can be vastly better politicians...

It's not odd, it's a for profit company that's using it for marketing.

Novel discoveries are now marketing ads.

No, it's not odd; IMO. It's by design.

I see all of this leading to a setup for: We did cure Cancer, everyone else (Healthcare, Gov., Rx) etc... has just not caught up or even worse; "you just don't have access top that model/version".

I have seen several times on HN recently how people don't see the impact of AI/more code etc... and I believe this is because its following the K-shape of the current economy.

At the top where most of us aren't but CAN see via stock market news etc...; they are making more money by adding efficiencies etc...

At the bottom; efficiencies are being applied at a scale that they could not before such that social and Gov. programs are more manageable and optimized at scale.

> Now what happens to post-docs who already make almost nothing and often get treated like crap?

At least in the US, that particular brain drain has already been happening due to Trump's administration. The best of the best are exiting to other countries that will gladly have them, and then there will be far fewer people getting into the field. Science in general has taken a massive hit under the current administration and it going to take decades to fix if it's even possible.

> Now what happens to post-docs who already make almost nothing and often get treated like crap?

This sort of discoveries are what gets postdocs funded lmao.

Every new idea like this creates several years worth of highly specialized work to test out derivative ideas, productizing it, and connecting dots to existing work.

I’m curious, what differentiates this from a preprint given the assumption it’s sufficient for publication? It didn’t read like marketing, they don’t seem to sell anything, and there's a link to a not-anthropic.com hosted paper.

It's not odd at all. Every single "AI did this cool thing" type post is an Ad. Remember AI outputs slop and never produced anything valuable that wasn't heavily assisted by humans or is a lie.