The state of the tech industry in 2026

I recently delivered the keynote at the LDX3 engineering leadership conference in New York, attended by 2,000+ engineering leaders, CTOs, Director+ and Staff+ engineering folks, in which I attempted to create a snapshot of where the tech industry is at this exact point.

In the middle of my keynote at LDX3

It came after I had the chance to visit the AI labs OpenAI and Anthropic, meet innovative startups like Ramp, Uber and others, get new, unpublished data from GitHub, Factory AI and Linear. The focus of the talk is trend inside of AI labs, VC-funded startups and Big Tech. Thanks to the kind access to these teams!