Maggie Appleton, in a post titled simply January 2026:
You might suggest that I spend less time on X, but I’m not inclined to look away just as the train gets up to full speed. Sure it’s a distorted reality, but it points to real ground truth: even if progress on language models slows this year, we are still far behind in using what already exists to reshape software design and engineering.
Her thoughts pair well with the aforelinked from Taranis. Even if progress slowed or stalled, we’d still have more than enough headroom to continue to reshape how we do what we do.
In fact, just this week I Slacked a colleague that I hoped OpenAI doesn’t change 5.2-Codex because I’m incredibly productive at the moment. It is a bit absurd.
I’m happy to see someone as thoughtful as Appleton on the GitHub Next team.