I always thought I had finished writing my outlook for 2026, so when someone asked, my first reaction was that I didn't know what else to write. Re-discussing the "bubble" issue would be incredibly boring: everything that can be imagined or calculated is more or less in its current state; there's no need for repetition.
I thought about looking back at what I've done this year—what I'm still doing, what I've changed, and what has been discarded. But that would also be tedious. Perhaps many tools and workflows, if I were to organize and explain them now, would take more time than it took for "vibe" to generate them back then.
So, let it go. Let's try not to let what already exists become a burden.
In that moment of "emptying out," a question emerged: In 2026, is there a way I could improve my efficiency by about ten times?
My subconscious answer was that it would be extremely difficult. That feeling of exhausted inspiration makes it hard to be optimistic about myself.
Curiously, perhaps triggered by what I've seen and heard over the past two weeks, a second question arose: If my own inspiration is depleted, is it possible to scale up through systematic methods—incorporating more resources, more people, and more tools—to let an "orchestra" (purely corresponding to the term often used in technical architecture) achieve a tenfold, or perhaps even a hundredfold, increase in efficiency?
Then, various failed experiences from the past decade or so began to "flash back," giving me a "technically feasible" answer. I know I no longer have the drive to try it myself, but perhaps this question itself will become the footnote for AI in 2026.
I still believe in the immense appeal of the "One-Person Company," but I also clearly know that in the so-called "Year of AI Reckoning," a significant number of organizations or enterprises of a certain scale must systematically achieve a hundredfold increase in efficiency for this story to continue and for the "light" we believe in to arrive.
A hundredfold, not tenfold, is what makes an organization resolve to undergo large-scale structural adjustments and become an "AI Complex." A hundredfold, not tenfold, is what allows a brand-new startup to truly "disrupt" an industry or a field. A hundredfold, not tenfold, is what allows like-minded people to choose something other than a compromised, dragging solution for the sake of avoiding resistance...
A hundredfold, not tenfold, is what might actually create a "new species."