Articles on artificial intelligence
My analysis on AI: from agents to vibe coding, from creativity to geopolitics.
Harness engineering: why the value of AI has left the model
The best models are neck and neck at the top. The real engineering, the value and the competitive edge have shifted to the harness built around them.
Disarming the Messiah: AI, the Pope, and the End of a Thousand-Year Schism
An essay on AI, the religious, and technological messianism, at the moment the Vatican speaks up.
AI: "Vibe coding", at the dawn of digital liberation
Programming in plain language, without writing code: vibe coding is the greatest democratization of software creation in history. Why routine development is being automated while a new role, the harness engineer, gains value.
The Great Illusion: why the bursting of the "AI bubble" will be a historic mistake
Why calling an AI bubble is a misreading, and what is really at play behind the valuations.
Humanoid robotics: China's robots join the dance
China’s humanoid robots go on the offensive: what it says about the global robotics race.
Physical Intelligence: When AI Breaks the Fourth Wall
When AI leaves the screen to act in the physical world, robotics shifts scale.
We Are at 57% of General AI
A study tries to quantify general AI: how far along the road to AGI are we really?
ASML’s Investment in Mistral AI: A Strong Signal in the Geopolitics of Semiconductors
What ASML’s investment in Mistral reveals about the geopolitical battle over semiconductors.
The New AI War: Five Lessons for NATO Doctrine
Five lessons the new AI war imposes on military doctrine and NATO.
Reading the minds of AIs: the most important civilizational stake of the decade.
Mechanistic interpretability, or how we learn to read the minds of AIs. A major civilizational stake.
The intelligence explosion: when AI accelerates science
What the idea of an intelligence explosion really covers, between scientific runaway and challenges for our societies.
AI agents #2: Is it better to prompt or to build an agent?
Prompting a model or building an agent: two ways of working with AI, and how to choose the right one.
AI Agents: 2025 Marks a New Era for Artificial Intelligence
Why 2025 tips AI into the era of autonomous agents, able to act rather than merely answer.