Coming into 2026, things feel a little bit different. The moment is somewhat unusual. It's charged by, I think, a maturation of what we've seen from AI tools, the promise of the last seven or eight years.

And so I wanted to start this year by grounding us in something different and something simple,

the way in which AI is already showing up in my day today and how that's changed in the last

two or three months and what that means for the year ahead.

So let's get back to this sensation that I have felt and experienced over the last

few weeks. It really feels that some of the AI tools crossed some part of the uncanny valley.

And what it feels like right now for me is that I have maybe 50, maybe 100 people working for me in

addition to my brilliant team, not metaphorically, but it's just in terms of actual velocity.

And what has really driven that has been the ability for these systems to write really good code and become more and more reliable in the

analysis they do. Things that have sat at the bottom of my to-do list for months are now done.

They're done in an hour. They're done for a few dollars. And so what I wanted to do, it's been such

a moment, maybe a realization or an epiphany about what that work style looks like just in the last few weeks.

I want to suggest that 2026 could be a year for everyone where the way in which you use AI is going to change.

It's going to be less about using tools and more about orchestrating

your team of virtual workers alongside your real human colleagues. And I think one way of thinking

about this is about moving from the to do list to the done list. Now, I want to take you through

six shifts. These are anchored around

three particular principles. The first anchor is how we make things and why the act of building

has fundamentally changed. The second anchor is what does meaning look like? Because when making gets

much cheaper, we need to ask a question about what is still valuable. And the third is what are the

foundations that all of this sits on, the energy and the money, and whether this entire edifice

will hold together.

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