"People think that [pharma using AI] is going to a prompt and saying, 'Cure cancer.' It's not." — @johncoogan "It's like: you have a 10,000-page document that you need to send to the FDA, and if there's a misplaced comma, they can just send it back to you. Now you're at the back of the queue." "I was working on FDA filings 4-5 years ago, and there were so many Word documents. It was the same application for multiple variations of the product that the FDA was going to review. So we actually wrote Python scripts to programmatically interact with the Word documents to basically do a very advanced version of find and replace." "That's perfect for AI. It just speeds things up a little bit. You submit a week earlier, you can submit more things, more variations. You can give more information, compile more information, investigate other literature, do deep research reports — 'What else is out there? Let's review all the IP faster' — summarize things, find different threads to pull on." "Little things like that just squeak out an extra 5 minutes here, an extra day there, and it all adds up to 'acceleration and progress.' It's not like, overnight, all of a sudden everything's changed."