{"id":580,"date":"2026-01-09T09:29:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/simon-willison-llm-predictions-for-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:29:54","slug":"simon-willison-llm-predictions-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/simon-willison-llm-predictions-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Willison LLM predictions for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I think the job of being paid money to type code into a computer will go the same way as punching punch cards [&#8230;] in six years time, I do not think anyone will be paid to just to do the thing where you type the code. I think software engineering will still be an enormous career. I just think the software engineers won\u2019t be spending multiple hours of their day in a text editor typing out syntax.<\/p>\n<p>The more time I spend on AI-assisted programming the less afraid I am for my job, because it turns out building software\u2014especially at the rate it\u2019s now possible to build\u2014still requires enormous skill, experience and depth of understanding.<\/p>\n<p>The skills are changing though! Being able to read a detailed specification and transform it into lines of code is the thing that\u2019s being automated away. What\u2019s left is everything else, and the more time I spend working with coding agents the larger that \u201ceverything else\u201d becomes.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2026\/Jan\/8\/llm-predictions-for-2026\/\">simonwillison.net\/2026\/Jan\/8\/llm-predictions-for-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the job of being paid money to type code into a computer will go the same way as punching punch cards [&#8230;] in six years time, I do not think anyone will be paid to just to do the thing where you type the code. I think software engineering will still be an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,24],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ai","tag-computing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}