The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code

Denis Stetskov compares AI coding to 7 defense knowledge-loss cases: a 2022 Stinger order delivers in 2026. The post cites EU shell capacity at 230,000/year and a 1M-shell pledge met 9 months late; the risk is the junior engineer pipeline, not single-task coding speed.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the hook is the manufacturing-to-code analogy, the essay supplies defense-production numbers, and the nerve is junior-engineer pipeline loss. It is strong commentary, not a model or product release, so it stays in the 72–77 band.