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Early 2026

We’re all well.

I’m writing this on January 1st. I’ve had delicious soba for lunch, as is tradition. I’m having kuro mame daifuku (black soybeans mochi rice cake) right now with my coffee, yummy. Cold has settled in Kyoto. Maybe I said this already but I love winter here. It’s often quite sunny. We have less tourists. Sometimes we have snow and we play all day outside with the kids.

AI has become the norm for most things at work. I certainly enjoy not having to perform tedious coding tasks but also, I constantly wonder if we’ll realize when we do not have “control” over our codebase anymore. Sort of like the boiling frog metaphor, you know?

2026 feels like a good time to ask myself and others a few questions:

What kind of software do I still want to build in 2026 and beyond?
What’s my profession now?
I enjoy using the power of 10,000 suns in my terminal but can I use any of it to build more connections with people?
How will all this stuff affect my children? At school but beyond as well. I didn’t plan any of this in 2017. I thought we were like 50 years off. Or to be more honest, I didn’t think about any of this at all.
And by the way, will we ever go back not thinking about any of this at all? As in, when does this become so ubiquitous that it ceases to be a topic of conversation between adults?

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