AJ predicted that by the end of 2026, no software engineering team will be less than three to five times more productive than it is today. Listen
He defined productivity as the number of tickets cleared through QA after a story is complete, and said Claude Code could take productivity per engineer up five times next year. He called it a bold prediction and said engineers remain important.
“you will not have an engineering team that is not three to five X more productive today at the end of 26”