MTS(@MTSlive):Sentinel Bio's @jtmonrad on why the future of grant-making looks more like investigative journalism than reading proposals: "When I talk about grant making as investigative journalism, a lot of that is about uncovering non-public information. Increasingly Codex or Claude or whoever can do a lot of the grunt work of reading a proposal, doing background research." "What it can't do is understanding, hey, this executive order that the White House just signed, why did that actually come to be? Or this new funder who just made a big pivot into your area, why did they make that decision? The information behind those decisions lives in the ether of happy hours, and Claude's not gonna get that out of someone."

2026.08.21 02:12

Sentinel Bio's @jtmonrad on why the future of grant-making looks more like investigative journalism than reading proposals: "When I talk about grant making as investigative journalism, a lot of that is about uncovering non-public information. Increasingly Codex or Claude or whoever can do a lot of the grunt work of reading a proposal, doing background research." "What it can't do is understanding, hey, this executive order that the White House just signed, why did that actually come to be? Or this new funder who just made a big pivot into your area, why did they make that decision? The information behind those decisions lives in the ether of happy hours, and Claude's not gonna get that out of someone."