Very few people can build agents for scientists, and that's the real bottleneck
nlarusstone · x · 2026-11-12
An industry observation: while the stated goal is curing all diseases, nearly everyone is building dev tools instead — and the number of people who are really good at building agents for scientists is extremely small, pointing to a talent gap in AI for Science.
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