I think I’m starting to feel what punch card programming must of felt like.

Each iteration takes me 30 min of careful planning, 20 min to carefully formulate the instructions in the bizarre way the machine understands, an hour for the machine to follow my instructions, and…

then I spend hours pouring over the output trying to understand what the heck was going on inside the machine and how I’ll tweak my program next time.

But in this case, the machinery is biology (eg. Taq DNA Polymerase enzyme doing PCR experiments).
It’s super tedious but hella gratifying when stuff works! Makes me wish I was either coding computers in the 70s or hacking life in 2040 😁