Researcher grades his own 16 AI predictions nine months later: what held up and what didn't
avt_im · x · 2026-09-13
Nine months after publishing sixteen AI predictions, Alexander Terenin reviews each one in a detailed blog post, self-grading them as correct, partially correct, wrong, or too early to tell. His headline bets: AI would transform software engineering almost overnight, shifting the job toward communication and managing coding agents rather than writing code. The post also analyzes whether his misses came from over- or under-estimating progress.
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