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Fix this gene

Fix this gene. (almost whispering) Please, oh please… don’t mess this up.

Let’s imagine a world where you talk to ChatGPT or Claude and say something like that.

Last year, a baby with a single broken gene would have died. Instead, doctors found the typo, edited it, and watched the system recover.

We call that debugging.

Genes are code. Editors are tools. And soon, LLMs may guide the process ... and hopefully without hallucinating.

Hospitals will start to look less like pharmacies and more like deploy environments.

We’re not debating whether genetic surgery will exist. It already does.

Source: a16z.news/p/operating-on…

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