2026 Is The Year Of Serious AI Engineering

LLMs won&rsquo;t replace engineers AI is improving at a sustained, impressive pace. During 2025, models went from being a novelty with potential to being a genuinely useful tool that I use daily. The improvement in both models and tooling has been remarkable. That said, I&rsquo;m still not convinced that LLMs will replace software engineers. It will just make engineers more productive and reduce…