With GPT-4b micro, OpenAI shows that transformers are perfectly suited for protein engineering. Think about it - transformers process sequences of tokens, and what's DNA? It's literally nature's token sequence. Proteins are just strands of DNA wearing a fancy outfit, and transformers can read them like a master cryptographer breaking the simplest cipher.

This is where it gets interesting. Transformers don't just read the sequence - they understand the abstract patterns, the higher-level purpose, the whole evolutionary story behind why that protein exists in the first place. When you combine this with structural prediction tools like AlphaFold, you're not just reading the blueprint - you're understanding the architect's entire vision.

Welcome to the future of medicine.