Sean McClure: LLM agent systems can now execute much of a computational biologist's workflow
sean_a_mcclure · x · 2026-09-24
Sean McClure clarified his claim in an ongoing debate: it's not that humans can't do this science, but that a general-purpose language-model agent system may now execute a substantial portion of a workflow previously performed by trained computational biologists — something he says Anthropic was clear about.
Part of a larger exchange about the boundary of AI scientific capability and Anthropic's candor.
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