Mistral AI founder to French Parliament: "Engineers at Mistral no longer write a single line of code

Mistral AI's founder has revealed that human engineers at the company have essentially stopped writing code, a stark admission that underscores how quickly AI systems are automating away even highly specialized technical work—and raising urgent questions about whether the technology is advancing faster than society's ability to govern it. The confession, made to French lawmakers, suggests that AI-generated code may now be capable enough to drive development of the very systems that are replacing human programmers. If true across the industry, the shift could reshape everything from employment to cybersecurity to the pace of AI development itself, since removing human review from the coding process both accelerates innovation and removes a critical safeguard.

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