The Zechner-Lopopolo Continuum: AI Engineers can't agree on whether we should still be looking at code

Alex’s recap of the best AI conference’s first European debut + a few BTS reflections from the speaker room, hallway track and podcasting from London

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Do AI Engineers still need to read code in 2026? how about 2027? This is the most discussed question at the first AI Engineer Europe conference.

On day 1 opening keynote, Ryan Lopopolo from OpenAI took the stage and said “code is a liability” and that we should all strive to be “token billionaires” - and on the last day, Mario Zechner…