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a_bonobotoday at 1:23 AM0 repliesview on HN

There has been a bit of a 'trend' to rewrite common bioinformatics/comp-bio into faster languages (Rust) via LLMs, OP's repo seems to be an early example.

Seqera Labs has a bit of a manifesto: https://rewrites.bio/

Heng Li has an overview here too: https://lh3.github.io/2026/04/17/the-ai-rewrite-dilemma

IMHO it's... OK? Bioinformatics code quality is generally poor, untrained biologists writing functioning code that is poor in scoping, but works. (Unguided) LLMs write on that level, too, so not much harm done.