You.com co-founders Richard Socher and Bryan McCann (among the most-cited AI researchers in the world) released 35 predictions for 2026. Three that stand out: the LLM scaling era has been ‘mined out’ as capital shifts back to foundational research; ‘reward engineering’ becomes a distinct job role as prompting hits its ceiling; and traditional human coding will be effectively replaced by AI by December, with humans moving into management roles. Via The Rundown AI. Read more