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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

The LLM Evolution: From Sequence Imitation to Verifiable Reasoning

Kamen Petroff

What happens to software engineering when AI runs out of human text to imitate? Discover how test-time compute shifts developer roles from writing syntax to architecting rigorous specs.

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