2026: The Year of the Uber Engineer
One of my favorite movies of all time is V for Vendetta . There’s a particular scene that sticks in my memory: it’s towards the end of the movie, when Inspector Finch is talking to his assistant Dominic Stone. Here’s the clip (it's worth the 1-minute watch). This is how I feel about AI in 2026, specifically AI-assisted software development. Let’s start with a timeline of the last 18 months. These are just the major milestones that I’ve personally engaged with in a meaningful way; trying to provide a timeline of all AI launches over the last 18 months would make this post insanely long. Some quick points first: I reference a lot of Steve Yegge’s posts and work. In my view, he’s the current thought leader in AI-assisted development and literally wrote the book on Vibe Coding. He’s also pushing the envelope with the tools he’s building, as you will see later in the post. While this post was AI-assisted, of course, the vast majority of it was written by me. Let’s begin! Timeline June...