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)

  1. New UI/UX standard emerges around LLM first SaaS

  2. Frameworks die

  3. Open Source models come back head to head vs frontier closed source

  4. Only frontend focused roles die

  5. More companies focus on AI Code Review, as AI Code Gen sees clear winners

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