Empirical data confirms significant junior displacement in software engineering, while seniors see augmentation. A mid-level pipeline crisis is emerging.
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Software engineering. The canonical case.
Engineering Is Automated. Research Is the Residual.
Recent advances show AI now automates much of engineering work, while research remains partly manual, raising questions about future AI capabilities.
OpenEuroLLM. The third path.
European consortium OpenEuroLLM faces compute bottlenecks amid ambitious multilingual LLM goals, highlighting limits of pan-European AI pooling.
The Coding Singularity Is Real — and Steeper Than Clark Presented
New data confirms rapid AI coding progress, revealing a faster approaching singularity with broader deployment implications. Key updates and uncertainties explained.
Mistral. The fourth path.
Mistral raises $830M in March 2026, becoming Europe’s strongest single-firm AI player, but still trails US models on complex reasoning tasks.
Minerva. The opposite path.
Italy’s Minerva-3B, trained from scratch on 2.5 trillion tokens, performs poorly on Italian academic tests despite technical success, raising questions about scale and investment.
The Forecast Is the Plan.
Major AI labs publicly commit to automating AI R&D by 2026, signaling a strategic shift towards automation as a core goal, not just an emergent property.
AMÁLIA · The Three Hard Questions.
Portugal’s €5.5M AMÁLIA project is operational and surpasses some benchmarks, but key structural questions remain unanswered, raising concerns about its future development.
The Atlas. What the framework is.
An overview of the Post-Labor Transition Atlas, its empirical basis, and its implications for understanding AI-driven labor displacement.
Police officer investigated for using AI to ‘create evidence’ in multiple cases
A police officer is being investigated for allegedly using AI tools to create false evidence in multiple criminal cases, raising concerns over integrity and accountability.
