Comment by hibikir

We already have as much parallelization as companies can afford: Hundreds, if not thousands of new corn varieties, coming from one lab. The budget is the limit. Testing is just expensive.

Process improvements come from failing faster, so you spend less money on your test. Finding the actual answer without testing would also be wonderful, but LLMs might be fast, but they aren't magic. Something like Alphafold saves time in some steps, but it's not just "hand me a candidate", but find completely novel verification mechanisms, which would be just as useful for humans. Either way, parallelization is unlikely to increase.