Recent developments show AI can now automate most engineering tasks, with research remaining a partially automated residual, raising questions about future AI progress.
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Engineering Is Automated. Research Is the Residual.
Software engineering. The canonical case.
New data confirms a 40% drop in junior developer hiring since 2022, with senior engineers showing augmentation. The sector faces a bifurcated impact amid economic factors.
OpenEuroLLM. The third path.
OpenEuroLLM, a pan-European consortium, faces significant compute resource challenges amid progress. First models expected July 2026.
The Coding Singularity Is Real — and Steeper Than Clark Presented
Recent data confirms the coding singularity is underway, with AI systems now automating most routine software tasks faster than expected, but deployment varies across industries.
Mistral. The fourth path.
Mistral secures $830M in March 2026, becoming Europe’s leading venture-funded AI firm with rapid growth and significant enterprise clients, despite still trailing US models in reasoning.
Minerva. The opposite path.
Italy’s Minerva-3B, trained from scratch on 2.5 trillion tokens, underperforms on Italian benchmarks despite extensive investment, raising questions about native-language LLM scaling.
The Forecast Is the Plan.
Major AI labs publicly commit to automating AI R&D, with OpenAI targeting a research intern by September 2026. This signals a shift in AI development strategies.
AMÁLIA · The Three Hard Questions.
Portugal’s €5.5M AMÁLIA model is operational, outperforming some benchmarks, but key structural questions remain unaddressed, impacting national AI strategy.
The Atlas. What the framework is.
An in-depth look at the Post-Labor Transition Atlas, its empirical basis, and what it reveals about AI-driven labor displacement and policy responses.
Fair-value appraisals for used GPUs and AI hardware
New approach proposes manual fair-value appraisals for used GPUs and AI hardware, aiming to resolve pricing disputes in secondary markets.
