Immunologist builds research-grade flow cytometry software with GPT-6 Astra, cancels all commercial subscriptions
DeryaTR_ · x · 2026-09-04
A biomedical researcher describes building a nearly research-grade flow cytometry analysis app with GPT-6 Astra. Labs historically pay thousands of dollars a year in subscriptions for such software; he has now canceled all of them. Astra delivered a working version with the desired UI and analysis workflow almost on the first try, unlike buggy earlier attempts with previous Codex models. His takeaway: scientific software that once required specialized teams, years of engineering, and million-dollar budgets can now be built by someone with zero software engineering experience — his bottlenecks are token limits and hours awake.
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