The Daily Index — Thursday, January 1, 2026 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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HERE ARE THE MAJOR CHANGES I SEE COMING FOR CYBERSECURITY IN 2026

The primary security question for companies will be how good their attackers' AI is versus their own AI. There will be increased spending on agentic security platforms and significantly more in-house building of security tools. Asset management will become possible for the first time because of agents. Most security platforms will eventually be replaceable with AI prompts.

danielmiessler.com · 10 min

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8 PREDICTIONS FOR 2026. WHAT COMES NEXT IN AI?

2026 will be the year when generative UI takes off, the Smart Home finally fulfills its promise, and biometric proof of personhood becomes the new social login. Engineers looking to separate themselves from the crowd need to build and learn, as deep technical intuition is what will distinguish them from others. Agents will continue to be the main headline. This year, they will start interacting in our daily lives to anticipate needs.

philschmid.de · 3 min

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REFLECTIONS ON 2025

AI tends to improve at the same pace that AI researchers get access to faster hardware. The hardware scheduled to come online in the next few years makes current hardware look like pocket calculators. If previous observations hold true, then we are not approaching a plateau, the field is just getting started.

samuelalbanie.substack.com · 29 min

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2025: THE YEAR IN LLMS

Reasoning was a significant feature of many models from nearly every major AI lab in 2025.

simonwillison.net · 42 min

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ON THE SOFTWARE JOB CLIMATE

There is a lot less money going towards hiring, but that could change if the tax code gets rolled back, interest rates fall, and data centers stop being the rage.

inclouds.space · 3 min

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NERD

NERD (No Effort Required, Done) is a programming language optimized for large language models.

nerd-lang.org · 3 min

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17 PREDICTIONS FOR AI IN 2026

Models will continue to improve their capabilities, but it will take a while for the full impact to be felt across the economy.

understandingai.org · 23 min

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ATMOSPHERIC COMPUTING

Atmospheric computing connects cloud services together, allowing users to store and run their own programs.

pfrazee.com · 12 min