A model put in charge of a wet lab, directing humans and robots to a cloning protocol 79x more efficient than standard. The claim is not that discovery got faster but that it stopped being miraculous — and Terry Tao supplies the line that makes it stick, comparing AI-driven proof to a magic trick whose awe dissipates once you learn how it was done.
Four days earlier he was the human in the loop. Here he is describing the loop becoming industrial process.