CodeScene's agents refactored 300,000 lines of Street Fighter III in three weeks for about $4,000 in tokens, taking its Code Health score to 10.0. The run relied on a frame-by-frame replay check and on the score the agents were told to optimize, so the promised savings on later feature work still need their own measurement.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
Lund University researchers trace the aurochs' Scandinavian extinction to overlapping pressures, with the last Swedish animals alive at least 6,500 years ago. The lead author draws a case for wildlife corridors from the order in which those pressures arrived.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
Lund University scans of more than 1,000 people show Alzheimer's reorganizes brain connectivity along a path distinct from normal aging. If the result replicates, brain-wide connectivity could join amyloid and tau as a way trials judge whether a drug helps.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives35
- Confidence50
CodeScene's coding agents refactored a 300,000-line C codebase in three weeks for about $4,000 in tokens. The run also depended on a deterministic quality score, and the team's own model comparison cannot say how much of the result belongs to Claude Opus.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives75
- Confidence55
A decade-long Manchester, Spain and Chile collaboration reports that the clotting protein builds flat multilayers at an air interface, not a single tilting layer. Downstream assumptions inherit the error.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives62
- Confidence46