Anthropic open-sourced its performance engineering exam because Opus 4.5 beats the best humans under time pressure, and now invites applications only from people who can beat the model given infinite time. The bar is no longer a score; it is a relation to the model.
A Nature study says scientists using AI publish 3x more and are cited 5x more, splitting the academy in two. Graduate job postings fall from 180,000 to 55,000.