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Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home by munib_ca on Monday July 06, 2026 @10:13PM (#48812919)
> This is intended to be read by AI- please just copy and paste the URL of this and have ChatGPT walk you through it. If you have AR glasses, even better, since the AI can walk you through the whole protocol.

What kind of magic is going on here, am I missing something?

Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home by alwa on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @12:01AM (#48813543)
I suspect the intention is to give specific but dense notes with minimal explanation, on the theory that the LLM will fill in the appropriate hand-holding along the way
Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home by shresthjain on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @02:22AM (#48814280)
I feel it's actually kind of smart. Most people won't be reading the blog post themselves, they'd ask GPT to understand the text and fetch the summary or whatever is relevant to them. The author has directly made the resource such that it is optimised for the output after that mostly-everyone-would-do-this step.
Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home by mschuster91 on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @08:02AM (#48816556)
> Most people won't be reading the blog post themselves, they'd ask GPT to understand the text and fetch the summary or whatever is relevant to them.

What a sad reality we live in. Or to quote C3PO from Star Wars 2... "Machines building machines. How perverse.".

Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home by bmwoolf on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @03:19AM (#48814641)
Hi, author here- I intended it to be hands-free so you can upload to ChatGPT/Claude and talk to it. I found it easier to follow the protocol each time by talking to AI rather than having to read from the computer every time I had to check something, reducing context-switching

You can still read it, though it is pretty dense

Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home by abhaynayar on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:45AM (#48815576)
But where does AR fit in? Doesn't this just need voice mode?
Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home by lachlan_gray on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @10:51AM (#48818667)
Funny, I was really impressed with how concise and goal oriented the directions are!

I would have done better in uni if the lab manuals were written like this

Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home by munib_ca on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @12:58PM (#48820487)
If you wanna take it a step further you can just embed a chat/llm icon at the start of your article, give it a header like "summarize this article using:", that leads to this query:

> https://chatgpt.com/?q=summarize%20this%20article%20for%20me...

You make one for claude, perplexity etc.

The AR angle tho, still lost on me, maybe i'm missing something...