If in 2025 you thought that AI was just a glorified assistant that completed your code, get ready for the change. In 2026, artificial intelligence has been promoted and no longer sits in the intern’s chair. Now it is the team lead, the one who supervises, validates and makes sure that the code not only works, but is robust, secure and efficient. Senior developers are no longer the ones who type the most lines of code, but the ones who best know how to direct their team of AIs.
Things have changed so much that giants like OpenAI no longer only offer APIs, but have launched applications such as Codex for macOS, a kind of command centre for managing multiple AI agents that work in parallel. The future is not programming plain and simple, it is orchestrating an army of virtual programmers that neither sleep nor ask for a raise. Does it scare or excite you? Probably a little bit of both.
