Yes
It replicated and trained a credible baseline
angusturner on Hacker News
dozens of experiments
In the thread “Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?”
Helped: GPU access and minimal supervision for autonomous experimentation.
… Yesterday I left Opus 4.8 to go do some architecture research, with GPU access. It replicated and trained a credible baseline. It implemented some ideas I'd been thinking about, and wrote custom CUDA kernels for them. …