During some recent tinkering I revisited this Fogknife post from 2021, which I had illustrated with the following XKCD comic:

The original post reminisced on my working with real biologists as a young know-it-all coder, decades ago, memories that the cartoon had bubbled up. Looking at it for the first time in five years, though, all I can think is: OK, well, in both cases the scientists would probably ignore the tech people and ask an AI, writing a short prompt and attaching their CSVs or Polaroids. And it would probably do a pretty good job. Or they’d ask the tech people anyway, who might write a better prompt. But, either way.