Are YOU an established novelist who has won at least one presitigious prize? Would you like a new job reading AI-generated novels and plays?? No???

Also the question I ask myself at least once a day when I arrive in a room in my house & can't remember why www.ft.com/content/4819... (but more importantly: welcome to the FT @nigella.bsky.social!!)

thanks David!

Our 6 year old got a label-maker ❤️

want one

That's a v good question & one we should look into - thanks

This looks like Jevons paradox in action BUT that doesn't preclude a big shift in WHO is in demand. We're seeing job ads (and salaries) for senior engineers going up; not so much for juniors. Seniority-biased technological change?

In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...

Does Gavin know his microphone is invisible?!

Thanks Paul - fascinating! Esp as I'm currently writing about the Ukrainian labour market...

These guys are creating the future we're all going to have to live in. And they are pretty much ALL guys.

Striking chart on the gender skew among AI researchers. In academia, the number of top AI scientists who are women has been growing slowly. In the private sector? Not so much.

(chart from this vg paper from Uni of Chicago bfi.uchicago.edu/working-pape...)

FT commenters are the best commenters (from this v good piece about the OpenClaw craze in China www.ft.com/content/e242...)

cheers Hetan!

Which chokepoint wins in a game of geoeconomic Top Trumps? It depends on its damage to the target, potential for blowback and durability

Great piece from @soumayakeynes.ft.com today on economic warfare. www.ft.com/content/b9f1...

I love that this headline is the most-read thing on FT.com

Great reporting from @rafeuddin.ft.com on Amazon's misadventures with AI coding (which have coincided with big headcount reductions) www.ft.com/content/7cab...

yes I totally agree! Empiricism for the win!

But is it actually a useful tool to separate out AI from macro effects, if it's not giving you a very good real-world read on AI exposure? The make-up artist who loses her job because of the use of AI models, for example, doesn't have an "exposed" occupation on a automatable-task-basis...

Economists: you know I love you, but I think it's time you gave it a rest with all these "which jobs are most exposed to AI?" analyses. www.ft.com/content/8d3b...

that's super kind, thanks - nervewracking but I hope so :)

thanks Karen! I haven't started banging on about yet on social media as I don't want to bore you all too soon, but it's been a labour of love and I'm v excited to see it finally be published soon :)

Really good piece from @emmavj.bsky.social about the rise in AI slop employment claims. A reminder that tools which make individuals more productive (in this case, in writing claims) does not necessarily make a system more productive. Sometimes the opposite. www.ft.com/content/afc3...

When I joined the FT as a graduate trainee in 2007, my salary was £26k (or maybe £28k, I can't remember now.) Almost 20 years later, many graduate salaries are not much different IN NOMINAL TERMS

Such a good piece today from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com which shows that the declining graduate premium is very much a UK problem rather than a general (or inevevitable) consequence of more people going to uni www.ft.com/content/649d...

Opinion | I Trusted Jeff Bezos. The Joke’s on Me.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...

Wise words from... *checks notes* Jeff Bezos (in 2017)...

OK good (wait, have you been to Level 2??) Similarly, anyone who's driven past the Cat and Fiddle and thought "yep, I'm in the south" is insane.

The truth about population decline Arguments about the dangers of falling fertility deserve much closer scrutiny

Good piece from Martin Wolf today about why people are fretting way too much about the prospect of declining birth rates/falling population. www.ft.com/content/0ae2...

This line appears to make half of my hometown (Buxton) southern, and half northern. As I'm from the northern half, I'll grudgingly accept it.