
What's next: tools I'm watching in 2026
🎧 Prefer to listen? Every year, someone publishes a “top AI trends” list that reads like a Silicon Valley press release. Quantum computing. AGI timelines. The singularity. This isn’t that. These are five things I’m actually seeing change — tools that work today, trends that affect regular people building stuff, and shifts that matter if you’re not backed by a billion-dollar company. ...