Radio interview of **54 minutes** with **Philippe Corrot**, co-founder and co-CEO of **Mirakl**, on *Les Pirates de l'IA* hosted by **Éric Hazan** (RCJ), the season-opening episode broadcast on **September 20, 2026** (volume 10), in three parts separated by musical breaks. **(A)** The career path, dated: **Keyrus** in 1997 (web agency, sold to **Progiware** in 2000), **Mayrev** in fashion accessories, then **Splitgames** — a video-game marketplace — bought by **Fnac** in 2008, whose two partners ran the marketplace for three years before founding **Mirakl** with **Adrien Nussenbaum**. **(B)** The vendor's exposure to what he calls the *"SaaSpocalypse,"* broken down into two mechanisms: **per-seat** pricing, from which Mirakl is exempt since it takes a percentage **on transactions** — *"whether it's an AI buying or a human customer, it makes no difference to us"* — and the rewriting of a piece of software by a model, which he considers unlikely in the short term because *"Mirakl isn't just lines of code"* but an infrastructure connecting nearly **100,000 sellers**. **(C)** The internal transformation, with a method starting from **deliverables** and working back up the chain, the merger of the documentation, support, and training teams, and the **OneHelp** agent: at constant headcount, customer satisfaction **×2** and support users **×10**. **(D)** The forward-looking part, where he answers *"yes"* to the question of a *job apocalypse*, treats **universal basic income** as a question worth asking, and blames French labor law and the lack of a French vision. Caveat set by the guest himself: *"what I'm telling you is true for the next six months."* Continues on the vendor side with [[bain-ai-rule-of-40-headwinds-tailwinds-saas-2026-04]].
#digital marketplace#marketplace#platform model
Philippe Corrot · cofondateur et co-CEO de Mirakl · interrogé par Éric Hazan dans *Les Pirates de l'IA* (RCJ).
X post by **Andrew Ng** from **August 14, 2026** (16:29 UTC), reprising the "Dear friends" letter from ***The Batch* #366** (DeepLearning.AI, same date), ~900 words. Ng presents **The AI Engineering Skills Map** and publishes **four skills** held to be the most important. **(1) Building and deploying AI applications** — the specificity is named: *« The key difference between AI and non-AI applications is that the former has unpredictable outputs »*, hence the emphasis on *evals* and error-analysis loops. **(2) Software engineering fundamentals**, because *« Understanding software fundamentals allows you to recognize what tradeoffs even exist »* — the inexperienced developer fails *« because they don't know what context to give their coding agent »*, hence the goal of *« steering coding agents using the precise language of software engineering »*. **(3) Using coding agents**, in an operational formulation: *« help the agent autonomously close loops by providing verifiers or evals »*, and *« knowing how much to intervene and how much to leave them alone »*. **(4) *Shaping the build***: *« Given a clear spec, coding agents are rapidly improving at delivering to it. Thus, our work as engineers is shifting toward deciding what should be in the spec »*, paired with *« Engineers should no longer expect to be given a pixel-perfect design and asked only to implement it. »* A **terminology note** carries most of the framing: Ng talks about **skills** in AI engineering and **not the role** "AI Engineer", with an explicit analogy — *« All developers today should know how to work with the cloud, and only a smaller number have a "Cloud engineer" title. »* The whole is backed by *« an analysis of more than 10,000 job postings, dozens of structured interviews with experts, hiring managers, and recruiters, surveys, and other online data »*, of which **no numeric results are published**: Ng describes his process as *« informally… akin to running clustering »* and announces a detailed map in future posts. He states the interest in the second-to-last sentence: *« DeepLearning.AI's principal focus is to help developers gain these AI engineering skills. »*
#AI Engineering Skills Map#skills map#Andrew Ng
**Andrew Ng** — fondateur de **DeepLearning.AI** · general partner d'**AI Fund** · cofondateur de **Coursera** et de **Google Brain** · ancien chief scientist de Baidu. Texte signé · à la première personne · écrit *« with my team »* sans qu'aucun collaborateur soit nommé. Publié le **14 août 2026** sur X et dans ***The Batch* n°366** — même texte aux deux endroits ; préférer *The Batch* pour toute citation durable. Quatrième fiche Ng du corpus · après les lettres n°350 (24 avril) · n°352 (8 mai) et n°359 (26 juin).