2026
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Tech. Geopolitics. 2026 is terrifying. 2026 is exciting. Both can be simultaneously true. You can both like and dislike the current state of affairs (yes, this includes LLMs), but your individual stance won’t change the pace in which the world evolves.
After spending most of 2024 significantly avoiding LLMs for coding, and after spending most of 2025 carefully and skeptically observing, and eventually (gradually) taming them, I’m kickstarting 2026 by fully embracing them.
It’s no panacea; and it doesn’t need to be hype (arguably, hype is terrible). Treat the LLM selection and driving process as you would when picking an operating system, a text editor, a package manager, a smartphone, or an ETF. Pick one, embrace it, ignore the (noise of the) rest, and then life moves on.
As such, I am announcing two new initiatives.
One: I am coining an AI1 tag in my blog: https://perrotta.dev/tags/ai/. I tend to write concise posts, primarily about workflows, with occasional tips (tips, not advice. There’s already way too much advice out there.). No “hot takes”.
Two: I am introducing a public blogroll: https://perrotta.dev/blogroll/. This contains a subset of blogs I follow in a grassroots and organic manner (hello, RSS!), and makes it very frictionless for you to do the same (there’s an OPML file there that can be easily imported in a news reader of your choice). In my esteemed opinion, the democratization of knowledge is important. I try to shy away from politics, and learn from all sides: I believe you can follow both DHH and Drew DeVault alike; there’s no need to “pick” any one side.