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“AI discovered a new material. ” “AI found a drug candidate. ” “AI solved protein folding.
Every team already knows how to put a feature behind a flag. What is different here is that the thing most likely to need changing at three in the morning is not whether the feature is on — it is which model it calls, which prompt it uses, and how much it is allowed to do without asking. Why th...
“Something went wrong. Please try again. ” is correct for about a third of AI failures and actively harmful for the rest, because for the rest, trying again cannot possibly help and you have just told the user to spend money finding that out.
Estimates of the energy in one model query differ by orders of magnitude across credible sources. Most of that spread is not disagreement about physics. It is disagreement about where the system boundary is drawn, and a figure quoted without its boundary is not a figure.
This page is about method, not about any particular medicine, and nothing here is medical advice. It is written to answer one question: when a company says a drug was discovered with AI, which part of a decade-long process is that sentence about? The pipeline, and where the years go Roughly, an...