> Earlier in the year, we had largely handwritten the first version of the git-to-Scion ingestion pipeline as a prototype. We thought it was good—until we got our hands on an early internal snapshot of Claude Mythos Preview. We asked it to rewrite the whole thing, and with no further instructions, it produced a version that consumed 20x less memory and was 4x faster, while preserving all of the implicit invariants around ingestion ordering and data structures.
We still need the human creativity and spark in the loop to come up with these fresh, new, bold, creative ideas. I think if you let the current version of Claude run forever, it still wouldn't have the creative spark to create its own new source control system.
This is the future of a human software engineer's job.
> Earlier in the year, we had largely handwritten the first version of the git-to-Scion ingestion pipeline as a prototype. We thought it was good—until we got our hands on an early internal snapshot of Claude Mythos Preview. We asked it to rewrite the whole thing, and with no further instructions, it produced a version that consumed 20x less memory and was 4x faster, while preserving all of the implicit invariants around ingestion ordering and data structures.
We still need the human creativity and spark in the loop to come up with these fresh, new, bold, creative ideas. I think if you let the current version of Claude run forever, it still wouldn't have the creative spark to create its own new source control system.
This is the future of a human software engineer's job.