When I saw "Science" I didn't think they meant Data Science, which is what the UIs full of pandas code and plots imply. Even if the focus is on the sciences, I suspect that's the less valuable part of the announcement particularly with the implication of Jupyter Notebook 2.0.
Image-understanding for data viz is a use case that has been ignored, and modern LLMs are getting better at proper EDA. But, uh, I may need to update my resume.
A lot of the soft and hard sciences use hacky matplotlib code to produce results and visualisation, without being necessarily data science
From the bits I've seen, I'd take claude-generated code any time over that written by maths, physics, biology, linguistics people. Even though I've seen Claude make some super-big mistakes while doing data analysis I'd guess it's already more reliable than most academics trying to code.
This 100000x over. Nothing is worse than trying to productionize code coming from academics like this.
My take based on the video is that they're thinking more about bioinformatics, which might technically fall under the "data science" umbrella depending how you define your terms, but which is not described that way in common usage.
It's the content that determines the sort of science, not the toolchain.
Honestly quite excited to see what can happen here, I think biology has generally had a lack of data science expertise.
All of these new things are starting to look like soviet space program propaganda. Is there something really new?
Old wine, new bottle...