2026 is going to be about going all in on automating software development. This is where the money is currently at as software developers need compute and what could justify all the data centers being built. It is much harder to convert students with limited money or people who don't care about accuracy or the highest end models as much in a lot of other fields. The thing most people even got excited about by the end of this year is obviously Claude Code. If they can solve software development the bubble may take longer than expected to burst.