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title: What AI was in 2025 — and what it becomes in 2026.
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date: 2026-01-07
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summary: What AI was in 2025 — and what it becomes in 2026. 2025 was the year many assumptions around AI met reality. Not in labs or demos, but inside real systems—codebases, workflows, agents, and production environments. This first Technology Bytes edition of 2026…
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What AI was in 2025 — and what it becomes in 2026.

2025 was the year many assumptions around AI met reality.  
Not in labs or demos, but inside real systems—codebases, workflows, agents, and production environments.

This first Technology Bytes edition of 2026 reflects on that shift:
- Why LLMs, GenAI, and agentic tools changed how software is built
- Why prompting was never the hard part
- Why model upgrades, drift, governance, and resilience now sit at the core
- And why AI increasingly needs to be treated like any other production software—designed, tested, deployed, and operated with discipline

The full blog looks back briefly at 2025, then focuses on what genuinely changes in 2026 for teams building and running AI systems end to end.  
📖 The full piece is published as the latest Technology Bytes edition.

Thank you to everyone who continues to read and share Technology Bytes.  
Wishing you a thoughtful and focused start to 2026.