“How I discovered an Exoplanet & the science apocalypse” by jonathanbreitg

LessWrong (30+ Karma) · Oct 21, 2026 · 19m

TL;DR: I discovered (a few) exoplanet candidates, I walk through how. Then I talk about the near future of science given the ease of and growing capabilities of agentic systems. These are largely independent sections, you can skip ahead.

LLM Usage: All text was generated by a Human Language Model, the discovery itself was done mostly by Claude Opus 5.5. The widgets are all Claudeslop code but they really do help with the explanation so please bear with them.

Exoplanet

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was built for detecting exoplanets. Each month (27 days) TESS focuses on a…