"I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it"

ChrisArchitect · 2026-10-08T15:22:16

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002665

pluc · 2026-10-08T10:33:11

You didn't find a planet. Claude found a planet and you took credit.

fragmede · 2026-10-08T10:37:22

> I chose what questions to ask, what tests mattered, and what counted as pass/fail.

pluc · 2026-10-08T11:18:45

I bought the ingredients and had someone else make the cake. Can I say I made the cake? What if I read out the recipe to the cook?

AlisaYoki · 2026-10-08T11:38:54

When people make applications with AI, they say that I made an application (although in fact the application was made by a AI). Or when a person goes somewhere on a horse - he says "I rode as fast as I could" - but he didn't make the whole work actually, that’s all was made by horse

I think there is the same logic :)

fragmede · 2026-10-08T11:41:01

I picked you up from the airport and gave you a ride home, but really, the car did all the work.

Kevin_Flynn · 2026-10-08T12:43:22

But you worked for weeks and years to purchase the car and gas.

Heads exploding in 3-2-1 ...

Kevin_Flynn · 2026-10-08T12:40:31

This is the way I think about it.

Put AI in front of 3 different people:

1) a person who has been homeless and on drugs for a majority of their life

2) a person educated in astronomy and the process of locating new stellar bodies

3) an engineer with an understanding of application and cpu architecture

You'll get 3 widely different inputs and outputs.

We tend to find what we seek, regardless of the tools used for the search.