- Simon Willison, someone I look to for practical LLM expertise, shared his 2026 predictions this week. He believes we hit a real turning point in November 2025 with GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5. He predicts that LLM code quality will become "undeniable" in the next year, and that we'll solve-Jan 15, 2026 20:45
- sandboxing problems for AI agents. On the cautionary side, he warns about possible security problems as coding agents gain more control. Whether AI will create more or fewer software engineering jobs remains an open question for him, the classic Jevons Paradox. What I really like about Willison's-
- analysis is his healthy skepticism. He isn't out there saying AI will do absolutely everything. Instead, he points out specific ability levels that AI has now reached. Then, he thoughtfully considers what those practical changes actually mean. For those of us watching AI search, the main takeaway-
- is that the models powering these systems just got significantly better at reasoning. I think this matters a lot for how AI search engines gather information and which sources they choose to cite. Link: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/l...
