Agentic biology is shaped like software: code leads bio by about a year
kenbwork · x · 2026-10-15
In a new article, the author argues biology won't jump straight to autonomous AI scientists. Like software, it will first accelerate where work is executable, feedback-rich and economically bottlenecked — starting with data analysis. Biology lags code by roughly a year, but strong, unintuitive technical parallels let us predict how agentic workflows will arrive in bio.
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