Software Architecture in the Age of AI Agents

Here are my 2026 predictions for how AI will change software: - An agent-native software architecture. Most new software will just be Claude Code in a trench coat—new features are just buttons that activate prompts to an underlying general agent. - Designers get superpowers—and become superstars. When software is cheap to build, designers become powerful. They can finally make anything they want without waiting on engineers—and if you can make a beautiful experience you’ll stand out in a sea of vibe coded apps. - Agentic engineering becomes a new discipline. There is a new skill of software engineering emerging that is different from vibe coding and different from traditional engineering that uses AI. It is truly AI native engineering from professional developers who don’t ever look at or write code. They’ll be the most productive category of engineer in 2026, it will become a new discipline in itself. - AI training that indexes on sense of self. To achieve true autonomy, AI agents will need to run for long stretches of time without constant supervision—and to this end, we’ll see new training approaches that focus on giving agents their own sense of self, goals, and directions—we’ll start to hit the limits of people-pleasing, sycophantic AIs. Want more? I sat down with @every COO @bran_don_gell to trade our 2026 predictions and reflect on @every’s banner year. If you want to know what comes next watch below. Timestamps: Introduction: 00:01:05 Reflections on Every’s growth over the past year: 00:01:34 What changes when a company grows from 20 people to 50: 00:09:38 How “agent-native architecture” will change software in 2026: 00:11:55 Why designers are slated to become power users of AI: 00:17:13 The new kind of software engineer that will direct AI agents: 00:23:24 Why the next wave of AI training will focus on autonomy: 00:33:42