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…