Software Engineering & AI Economics

Philipp Petermeier

I’m a research software engineer and full stack developer in Berlin. I build software, work with data, and research AI’s economic implications.

01 / Research

Current & recent research

Research on AI’s economic implications. The connective tissue for me is information exchange and synthesis.

All research & projects
OngoingSPAR · Fall 2026

Mapping Cost Trajectories of AI-Adjacent Technologies

How do technology costs and performance change over time?

I’m participating in research on how technology costs and performance evolve, and what that means for AI’s development and diffusion.

Fig. 1 — Project approach
  1. Historical prices & specifications
  2. Cost & performance trends
  3. Implications for AI
About the SPAR project
CompletedSafe AI Germany · April–September 2026

Economic Decision-Making Under Deep Uncertainty About AI’s Trajectory

How do beliefs about AI affect economic and career decisions?

From April to September 2026, I explored economic decision-making under uncertainty about AI’s future. The project produced an interactive career-decision tool, a published report, and a conference presentation.

Fig. 2 — Decision framework
  1. Beliefs about AI & personal values
  2. Compare options across possible futures
  3. Career decisions
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02 / Writing

Writings

I write as Infornomics. I find that forcing me to explicate myself is tremendously helpful for my own cognition.

All writings & publications

Project report ·

Economic Decision-making in AIs long shadow

Beliefs about AI’s future, practical career decisions, and the limits of a model.

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Essay ·

What's in a job, anyway?

AI’s impact on work, seen through the interconnected tasks that make up a job.

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I’m fascinated by systems of all kinds: biological, social, technological. How they work, why they fail, how information flows through them, and how we might design better ones.

Professionally, that means building software and working with data, mostly around machine learning and complex system modeling. My interests also wander into philosophy and ethics, social theory, and the management of complexity.

This place collects what I’m building, researching, and trying to understand.