AI in 2026 shifts from impressive demos to real execution: 8 trends to watch
alifcoder · x · 2026-10-12
Liam (@ottleyai) surveys AI across robotics, video, coding, agents, model pricing, creator tools, voice and security, arguing the same shift is everywhere: AI is moving from impressive demos to real work — from generation to execution. His example workflow shows a single prompt yields a nice still image, but breaking a video scene into goal-setting, reference research, multi-angle generation, character consistency, editing and style consistency produces an actual story.
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