2025 was the year where many organizations had frontrunners running ahead, playing with AI, seeing huge engineering boosts in output.
But the organization as a whole? Significant performance boost? Not yet.
The data is clear from my own experience. As an individual, I'm dramatically more productive with AI. My colleagues are starting to get there. But the team as a whole? The organization? That's a different challenge entirely.
I think 2026 will be the year it moves from the individual to the team delivering with AI.
I'm already seeing it. My colleagues are getting their magic moments. They're starting to use the tools actively. More and more people are reaching that inflection point where the uncertainty transforms into "oh, this actually just works."
The shift is happening. It's slow. It's messy. It requires trust and experimentation. But it's happening.
The question isn't whether teams can be productive with AI anymore. The technology is proven. The question is: how do we organize around it? How do we build culture, process, and tooling that lets teams operate at this new speed?
That's the work of 2026.
Part of the #100DaysToOffload documenting agentic development in 2026