Gergely Orosz's 2026 tech industry snapshot: nobody hand-writes code anymore
rseroter · x · 2026-10-07
Gergely Orosz delivered a keynote at LDX3 New York (2,000+ engineering leaders) offering a 2026 snapshot of the tech industry, drawing on visits to OpenAI and Anthropic plus unpublished data from GitHub, Factory AI, and Linear. Highlights:
- Changed: practically nobody writes code by hand anymore; running 5-10 agents in parallel is common; the IDE is fading — 13+ shifts from the past year
- Broken: assumptions about code output no longer hold, code reviews have become theatrical, quality and reliability are down
- Unchanged: teams and planning still matter; non-engineers still don't ship code
- Next: cloud coding agents and harnesses, engineers stopping reading code line by line, companies building a new kind of AI infra
The 29-minute talk is available in full alongside a written summary.
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