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1. hmokiguess · 1790191078 · focus · HN ↗

   I'm getting tired of the marketing.

   There are so many people involved on this yet we still say things like "Claude did", we need to start waking up and being more real about how we are still in "AI + Human" land.

   What's wrong with saying "A team of researchers backed by Anthropic using Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats" or, ffs, mention the lead researcher in the headline?

   1. dekhn · 1790194599 · focus · HN ↗

      It looks like the researchers just wrote the agentic harness and the rest of the work really was done autonomously by Claude with only extremely limited guidance after.

      BTW the first author of the paper worked in the Doudna lab studying the origins of crispr (and after their PhD, joined Anthropic). All of the authors either have, or are going to have, excellent careers. I dont' think they are worried about attribution.

      1. hmokiguess · 1790205846 · focus · HN ↗

         > just wrote the agentic harness

         I think "just" and "harness" are carrying a lot there, you likely underestimate how much that matters and how their knowledge made it possible

         1. dekhn · 1790206684 · focus · HN ↗

            I can't tell- the paper says the harness details are in Sup 1 which I don't think got published.

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