Claude Science

“The moat is very limited. Harnesses aren't crazy hard to engineer.”

“one or two companies holding the keys to "progress" for a monthly subscription price”

“It's honestly harder - you have to do a lot of extra work to ensure your work is traceable.”

“it is VERY good at finding patterns in the DNA around my binding sites”

“came up pretty much with the same rules, built a report, and did the manual assessment”

“may have tons of potential if they expand to fields like economics and engineering”

“I actually believe Anthropic is moving in the right direction with this.”

“$200/mo. Me, a scientist: copy-pasting into Claude and saying "I did the analysis."”

“On the one hand this is way better. On the other hand it's just good enough that your spot check will look good and your work will still contain hallucinations”

“knocked out my analyses in minutes using command line tools like bcftools and scripting”

“They are offering this free to igen students which is really cool”

“i think that this product would not be a fit for all given diversity of scientific tasks”

“Claude Science seemed to make very easy work of it.”

“The built-in error recovery and tool orchestration could make it practical for real lab workflows, not just demos.”

“Did it produce this absolute clanger of a visualisation that still proudly sits on top an anthropic blog post?”

“it solved it in about a minute”

“I like how this implies parsing PDFs is as hard as like protein folding”

“it must be a massive headache for system administrators”

“Doesn't seem like much value-add beyond pointing Claude code at org mode.”

“It shocks me that Anthropic thought that this was a good thing, and says a lot about their research integrity (or lack thereof).”

“it isnt just claude cowork especially with connection and abilities related to SPC clusters”

“Claude science is meant to be used in the context of reproducible science research”

“closed, proprietary ecosystems trying to build for-profit moats around research”

“That will be critical for traction within pharma R&D environments.”

“Find out I need a different subscription. Cannot quit program (must force quit).”

“They forgot to include an example of prompt error on "cancer" with Fable in that "nice" video.”

“The connectors and skills are all just biology and pharma.”

“Shows how their priorities are for profitability first and help humanity second.”

“impressive to me, but sadly i feel a little misleading since this is only the data-science part of life sciences”

“overrated packaged workspace to drain more usage”

“sycophantic, non-deterministic lying machine”

“a nice but verbose literature overview of my chosen topic that includes at least one hallucinated reference”

“Making it easier to just pump out paper-mill publications is about the last thing science needs right now.”