Last week I read about an AI that designed a vaccine fighting coronaviruses we haven’t even encountered yet (ScienceDaily). Cambridge ran the first human trial, and 39 volunteers received the antigen.
It’s crazy to think that an algorithm analyzed the entire genetic family of a virus and engineered protection against members still circulating in animals and waiting to jump. But when I ask it to fetch my latest brief from a list of docs, it can spend nearly two minutes opening the wrong files in my vault just to show me a brief from three months ago.
And I know Cambridge uses a custom trained AI, but what I want to show you is that the gap between what AI can do and what a setup lets it do is what makes or breaks your workflow and productivity.
I never built scaffolding on purpose, until recently. It piled up around the agent by accident, folder by folder, until the agent lost its way inside a mess I shaped for myself.