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I spent 7 years in a chemistry lab, then built an AI platform that controls real instruments. AMA.
Quick background: I'm a materials science PhD candidate at East China Normal University & Shanghai Academy of AI for Science. For 7 years, my world was the lab bench — synthesizing materials, running spectroscopy, optimizing reaction parameters. Then I taught myself to code, and everything changed. The moment that started Xyzen: We tried to use an LLM to run a real chemistry experiment. It read...