2025 was yet another great year. It was great because I witnessed a lot of turbulent and vexatious moments. It definitely deserves a blog post to briefly look back and ponder what will happen next year. However, the development of AI and the tooling produced by it are moving too rapidly. People have been making forecasts like AI 2027, and what I am trying to do here is just a note for myself, hoping it resonates with you.
The Year of AI, The Year of Fear
Software Engineering is like nothing before since 2022. Some of my friends who were still in college back then had used ChatGPT to produce their theses, and make money of of copy-pasting responses from chat boxes.
Software Engineering is like nothing before since 2025. Models are now stronger than their predecessors and we are amazed by their ability, speed and accuracy to return outcomes in all scenarios we can think of when writing software. Of course, you still need to use and instruct models correctly but it seems the boundaries of what a model can do are being pushed on a daily basis as of today.