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A physicist spent a year of his life and ~500 pages of hand calculations for quantum gravity in his PhD thesis, but Opus 5.5 did it in 10 hours, including the article and GitHub repo. And it even found the errors. What will "labor" mean in academia from now on?

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  1. 2026-10-19 08:38 · r/singularity
    A physicist spent a year of his life and ~500 pages of hand calculations for quantum gravity in his PhD thesis, but Opus 5.5 did it in 10 hours, including the article and GitHub repo. And it even found the errors. What will "labor" mean in academia from now on?

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