Physicist-Supervised AI Development: A Quantified Case Study with Claude Code

arXiv·medium signal

Quantified case study of a physicist supervising Claude Code (Sonnet/Opus) over 12 days and 57 sessions to build a differentiable physics module. Documents 15 supervision events: 10 resolved autonomously, 2 needed domain knowledge, 3 failed. First structured empirical data on AI-assisted scientific software development with real intervention metrics.