https://zakelfassi.com/blog Founder & CEO of Talk & Comment, former Head of Messaging Product Partnerships at Meta, and Co-Founder & CTO of INK + PORCELAIN. Systems engineer, operator, and writer building voice platforms and agent systems from inside live products. en-us zakelfassi@gmail.com (Zak El Fassi) zakelfassi@gmail.com (Zak El Fassi) Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://zakelfassi.com/blog/2026/2026-04-04-biology-as-software-plants-as-runtime https://zakelfassi.com/blog/2026/2026-04-04-biology-as-software-plants-as-runtime A team at the Weizmann Institute inserted 9 genes from fungi, plants, and toads into a tobacco plant and got it to produce 5 psychedelic compounds simultaneously. The paper reads like biology. The pattern reads like software: CRISPR is the compiler, the plant is the runtime, the compound is the application. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT zakelfassi@gmail.com (Zak El Fassi) biologysystemsaiinfrastructure