The Gigantic Shift
TL;DR:Companies are using AI as an excuse to cut headcount while single-person unicorns loom. Old recipes are expiring. Organizations cannot learn fast enough for you — install a coding agent, build something, play. 2026 is your window. Waiting for permission is the surest way to become irrelevant.
We are witnessing a gigantic shift in what is technically possible.
We are also witnessing companies using that as an excuse to cut its overstaffed organization loose.
These two things are appreciated by the stakeholders.
This affects many of us. All of us.
This is a very personal technological change.
I am committing myself to understanding how we can keep people relevant in these changing and challenging and exciting and scary times.
I see posts of Jeff Sutherland spawning an agentic Scrum team. And how this is the new new new game.
I hear Jensen Huang promoting agentic operating system. And first single-person unicorns are around the corner.
I read product managers of advanced organizations like Anthropic claiming that when their engineers turn to becoming real product developers, what remains in packaging and pricing.
I hear many signals. This is the time to listen and absorb, do and try.
This is the time when old proven recipes might stop making sense. When new practices and skills emerge with an unprecedented speed.
I am committed to learn and try things first-hand. I encourage everyone to do the same.
Learning is a personal journey.
Most organizations won’t cope up with this speed of learning. And if you sit there and wait to be given permissions to try new things you will lose your precious time.
Don’t wait. Don’t stay in the past.
Go install your coding agent. Build a simple app. No matter what. Find a pet project to play with.
2026 is your playing time. Our time.