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AI year in review: Trends shaping 2026

AI year in review: Trends shaping 2026

In this special year-end episode, experts from the Mixture of Experts podcast review the biggest AI moments of 2025 and predict what's next for 2026. The discussion covers the rise of "super agents" and the battle for the user interface, open source's breakout year and its remaining challenges, the AI hardware supply crisis and the push for efficiency, and the future of modular, multimodal AI systems.

On Engineering AI Systems that Endure The Bitter Lesson - Omar Khattab, DSPy & Databricks

On Engineering AI Systems that Endure The Bitter Lesson - Omar Khattab, DSPy & Databricks

Omar Khattab, creator of DSPy, reinterprets the 'Bitter Lesson' for AI engineering, arguing that the key to building robust and enduring AI systems is to move beyond brittle prompt engineering. He advocates for a declarative, modular approach that separates the fundamental program logic from the rapidly changing landscape of LLMs, optimizers, and inference techniques.