The Foz dares set foot in JR's hood for a very special European edition. Back from a 3 week vacation hiatus and holy crap! In the reverse-black-hole of AI, 3 weeks is like a year in the real world.

They review the failure to launch ChatGPT's saucy edition, Meta's acquisition of MoltBook and other things!

Come and drink from the AI-news-and-topic firehose!

• Builder Identity Crisis?: https://engineeringafterai.substack.com/p/from-builder-to-orchestrator-the

• Actual Study about Skill Erosion (The link in the Builder Identity Crisis article is wrong. Hence Foz's confusion): https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245
• METR AI velocity study (2025): https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

• Is AI Slowing Us Down?: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/are-ai-agents-actually-slowing-us

• OpenAI After Hours (Adult Mode): https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-cancels-spicy-chatbot

• Meta Buys Moltbook: https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-acquires-ai-agent-social-network-moltbook-2026-03-10/

• Iceman Rises (Val Kilmer AI): https://variety.com/2026/film/news/val-kilmer-ai-film-as-deep-as-the-grave-1236691042/