Mazdak Salavati
mazdaks.bsky.social
Mazdak Salavati
@mazdaks.bsky.social
Livestock Phenomics | Bioinformatics
Reader in Data Science
SRUC
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Totally agree something has shifted. We used Claude Code extensively for fgumi and it genuinely changed our velocity on the port from Scala to Rust. The key was having deep domain expertise to guide it and catch the subtle stuff. AI as a force multiplier for experienced devs is very real now.
I'm both excited and a little terrified. It feels like a wave of AI-assisted tool rewrites is coming to bioinformatics whether we like it or not.

We figured that the best we can do is to try to get ahead of it, so we wrote down some principles for doing it responsibly: rewrites.bio
rewrites.bio - A manifesto for bioinformatics
Principles for responsible AI-assisted rewriting of bioinformatics tools.
rewrites.bio
April 2, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Nestle quits global alliance on reducing dairy methane emissions reut.rs/4h4mgoA
Nestle quits global alliance on reducing dairy methane emissions
Food group Nestle said on Wednesday it had withdrawn from a global alliance for cutting methane emissions that aims to reduce the impact of dairy farming on global warming.
reut.rs
October 8, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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