Author name: Ryan Bethencourt

Why Drug Discovery Needed AI in the First Place Let me start with the brutal calculus of modern drug discovery. It costs $2.6 billion to bring a single drug to market. The timeline is 10 to 15 years. The odds of any given compound, even after Phase I, ever making it to patients is roughly […]

How I Actually Evaluate LLMs (The Framework That Actually Matters) When I’m deciding whether to use a model for a specific workload, I’m asking five questions. First: reasoning accuracy on domain-specific tasks. Generic benchmarks are noise. What I care about is: can it read a biotech paper and extract the actual scientific claims? Can it

What Changed in 2024-2025 That Made Agentic AI Real For years, people talked about autonomous agents as a future capability—something that would arrive eventually. Then two things happened in close succession that actually made it viable. First, the LLMs themselves got better at reasoning. By mid-2024, Claude 3, GPT-4 Turbo, and emerging open models showed