Five Things AI: Predictions for 2026Everything you need to know about AI at the beginning of 2026. Really.Heya and welcome back to Five Things AI! The new year has just started and of course everybody will be doing predictions about AI in 2026. I don’t know what you predicted for 2025, but I didn’t have the data-center rush on my bingo card. Somehow I just assumed that these data-centers will be build everywhere, but not at this scale and with so much spending-power behind it. For 2026, I am very bullish about Agentic AI, as I have been in 2025 as well. On a personal level, I am still awestruck how AI has changed software development and therefore product development. I spent the last few days building stuff with Google’s Antigravity and in the first time after almost 20 years I am building software products again. And of course I am not coding the stuff myself, I am just designing the product and telling the machine what to code. This is of course so much faster and cheaper than writing briefs for developers, it really is insane. And nobody complains when I have this really cool idea a few days into the project and basically throw away everything and start all over again… We are moving into the era of software on demand. Remember: we are changing the way Five Things AI work from now on. I am reading hundreds of articles a month on AI and here I picked out the five articles from last week that help you understand AI better. Paid users will also get my analysis and my thoughts on the most important aspects of these articles. Enjoy this edition of Five Things AI! How AI shook the world in 2025 and what comes next
Oh yes, indeed, more change is coming. For many employees, this change will be hard to sugarcode: they will get fired. Some will reinvent themselves, most don’t. I am certain that small companies will benefit tremendously from these changes as they can really boost their productivity with Agentic AI systems. 17 predictions for AI in 2026
And while I wonder why someone would pick the number 17 for the 2026 predictions on AI, I do think that these 17 predictions present a pretty good selection of topics that will be important this year. The Enshittifinancial Crisis
Oh, this is an interesting and very long read. If you haven’t guessed it already, the author doesn’t really have the brightest outlook for the future of AI. AI paradoxes: 5 contradictions to watch in 2026 and why AI’s future isn’t straightforward
I actually think that these contradictions are inherit in most technologies, especially when they are fairly new and everyone is still trying to figure out what this all means. Agentic AI Takes Over 11 Shocking 2026 Predictions
This is the big change we will all personally experience. And then we will take it very much for granted as soon as we have made the switch to Agentic AI systems. (…continue reading.)... Continue reading this post for free in the Substack app |






