A missed date can disprove a career forecast without settling whether the underlying work is still worth pursuing. Ownership, recognition, and market response provide the next decision tests.
RAG, vector search, graph engines, and generic evaluation tooling are moving into managed platforms. The durable work is defining which evidence may count, what failure means, and when an agentic system is acceptable to ship.
Senior specs in Finnish regulated reporting bundle proxies for someone else's apprenticeship system; the newest slice, auditable AI automation, has no such system yet, so the working hypothesis is to form it in place rather than wait for it to appear in a listing.
Four plausible sources for the eventual cohort of auditable AI-automation specialists in regulated reporting, recorded now so the guess is falsifiable against later hiring patterns.