FormuLLA: When LLMs Stop Talking and Start Formulating
Formulation is where AI enthusiasm usually goes to sober up. In a slide deck, “AI-assisted drug development” sounds clean: feed the model a drug, get back a formulation, reduce experiments, accelerate personalisation, everybody nods. In a lab, the problem is less polite. A formulation is not just a sentence with chemical names. It is a physical recipe with roles, proportions, processing constraints, and mechanical consequences. A model can sound fluent while quietly omitting the lubricant, mangling the unit, or inventing a polymer that belongs more to fantasy literature than pharmaceutics. ...