I Read Claude's Biology Discovery as a Pipeline: 5 Lessons
Anthropic posted on September 23 that Claude agents found a new enzyme system hiding in phage DNA. The numbers in the post: roughly 950 agents, 21 hours, 210 million tokens, one giant database of DNA sequences. One agent noticed a repeating pattern next to a gene that looked odd. Humans did the lab work, named the system ART, and released a pre-print. When I checked around 1 PM Singapore time the Hacker News thread sat at 567 points and 588 comments, and most of the fight is about one word: discovery.
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