Engineering predictions 2026

Aditya Lahiri
CTO & Co-Founder @ OpenFunnel

More and more of planning - less and less of writing code by hand (~0 for all)
New UI/UX standard emerges around LLM first SaaS
Frameworks die
Open Source models come back head to head vs frontier closed source
Only frontend focused roles die
More companies focus on AI Code Review, as AI Code Gen sees clear winners
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