Comment by elendee

a TUI using react seems like something they would be particularly bad at; visual feedback (esp the very specific feedback we rely on during dev, with Inspector) is kinda the Moravecs Paradox hurdle for these things. Idk much about virology tools but I would imagine it's a very text-friendly environment, and it can probably find plenty of documentation on how to use the tools. I recently had Claude write my entire particle system for a virtual world I'm working on, in 3d. It did fine without ever "seeing" anything. There's still a lot of intervening steps between a virus being synthesized in real life and programming one, but I would bet the programming part is within reach.