That does not seem to be an accurate description of what has happened here.
What it looks like is someone with significant biochemical experience and a Harvard PhD has created some kind of drug or chemical that he thinks will be effective for treating Alzheimer's, and that he mentions using Claude Code to help him program some of the complex chemical engineering machines that he used along the way.
Any subject matter experts care to chime in with your gut feeling about where this sits in the "promising potential treatment" to "AI psychosis" spectrum?
What does the guy's basement have to do with it? We live in the internet age, we can do anything anywhere. Was there not any other more relevant information to fluff up the headline? By the way, why are we still using twitter?
I know too litle biology to be sure this make sense, but I've seen too many crackpots in math and phisics recently...
I studied some chemistry. The photo of the lab is interesting. It looks real (not AI generated). It has a few vertical condensers and separatory funnel. The vertical connections make sense, but the whole setup makes no sense, like a display of cool equipment. My question is: Why one of the condensers is green?!?!
> the development of PAC-832 was catalyzed by various modern technologies, most notably liquid-handling robotics
Is there a photo of the robot? The photo only shows 1990 equipment.
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[ 0.24 ms ] story [ 33.4 ms ] threadWhat it looks like is someone with significant biochemical experience and a Harvard PhD has created some kind of drug or chemical that he thinks will be effective for treating Alzheimer's, and that he mentions using Claude Code to help him program some of the complex chemical engineering machines that he used along the way.
https://xcancel.com/DouglasYaoDY/status/2070904914050797582
He used AI to program robot arms.
However, it does seem to have a few undesirable side effects.
I studied some chemistry. The photo of the lab is interesting. It looks real (not AI generated). It has a few vertical condensers and separatory funnel. The vertical connections make sense, but the whole setup makes no sense, like a display of cool equipment. My question is: Why one of the condensers is green?!?!
> the development of PAC-832 was catalyzed by various modern technologies, most notably liquid-handling robotics
Is there a photo of the robot? The photo only shows 1990 equipment.