Agents did in three weeks what took Akash a year
From 20 Years of R&D. Matched in 3 Months by 2 Friends. on Deeptech Decoded, with Advaith Sridhar.
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got excited about it then. He didn't believe me. Scientists are usually skeptics. so.
No, it will be over tomorrow. Once you sleep over it, then you will be like, no, I changed my mind.
Yeah.
Yeah. And then one day his workflow got completely automated where he went from writing his fancy PhD code to having Claude write his code for him. And I think that's when it like a daily hit him as well that, my God, this is going to be a big thing. And so that's when we decided to start this.
so it's actually did you try to help him out and then you kinda get into the revital and then you kinda realize my gosh, there's so much potential actually we can leverage in this.
Yeah, in fact, one
of the first things we were trying was he had some unpublished work. So he'd spent a year chasing this track of finding materials for some domain, but it didn't go anywhere. And so he never published it. However, we asked Claude to do some other tasks and some other unrelated tasks, but then it came to some of the same conclusions that he came to after a year of doing his work at Stanford. And so...
That's when he was like, yeah,
I was like
this thing just did in three weeks what I took a year to do. And so it was a little freaky at points over there.
actually it's interesting to come across that on your own sphere, because when DeepMind GNoME when they published the paper, it was November 2023, right? If I'm not mistaken.
Mm-hmm.
because it's one of the most spectacular things ever in happened in the recent history. Material science is not like progressing very, fast. it starts with like
Mm-hmm.
d- and then most of the things that we figure
out iron or glass magnets that happened all
Mmm.
sedendity in in the bottom line of it if you take a look at how they came up with it even the Teflon that our moms dads
Yeah.
cooking is a pure happy accident they figured that somebody changed the measures
then it started
Mm-hmm.
to push the limits, and all of a sudden they realized that hold on a minute, this is a very special element that we came up with. Let's take a look at it. And then in your case, with the genome, it also pressed 800 years of work into it with two to two million combinations, right? If I am not mistaken.
