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The Best Developers in 2026 Are Hybrid Thinkers
The industry is changing fast.
The strongest developers today are no longer “just frontend” or “just backend.”
They understand:
- AI workflows
- product design
- automation
- APIs
- UX
- system architecture
- business impact
The best engineers I’ve seen recently think like builders, not coders.
- They move fast.
- Use AI aggressively.
- Automate repetitive work.
- And focus their energy on solving real problems.
AI is not lowering the bar.
It's raising the ceiling.
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Built an AI Security Scanner for GitHub Orgs in 2 Weeks
Engineered an end-to-end AI platform that scans entire GitHub organizations for vulnerabilities and auto-generates fix PRs.
What it does:
Crawls 100+ repos via GitHub GraphQL API in batch mode
Runs GPT-4 over real source code to detect SQL injection, XSS, hardcoded secrets, CSRF, auth bypasses
Scores by severity, generates secure code fixes, creates PRs automatically
Real-time WebSocket dashboard shows live progress
Tech: Next.js 15 · Node.js · Supabase · BullMQ · Redis · OpenAI · CrewAI
Open source, MIT licensed: github.com/aymandakir/org-code-ai
Shipped in under 2 weeks. Full stack, production-ready.
Great work! And it's open source too. 😄
barcelona, Friday morning, 11am
a founder messages me about his rebrand, the third one in two years as he wants it "more refined, more polished and more premiumlooking."
shows me the current site and it's already the most refined ai company site i've seen this week. It had a clean type, generous spacing, off white background and a lowercase logo.
it looks expensive and it tells me nothing about what they do.
polish is not always the problem, he has a positioning problem dressed as a design problem.
a fourth rebrand will not fix it and another color palette will not fix it, nicer typography will not fix it.
if you keep rebranding and the gap is still there, the gap is not visual.
How good of a web designer is AI?
I put Claude Design to the test asking it to redesign my client's product inventory page I built in Framer.
In under 10min it produced 2 variations. Neither can go on client's website directly but it surfaced two years' worth of overlooked improvements I can implement manually.
The gap between AI output and production-ready website is there, but in the hands of a web designer who knows what to do with the output, it has a valuable place in the workflow.
Feels like AI isn’t replacing the designer, it’s just speeding up the "thinking layer". Like you said, it surfaces things we somehow miss for months.
Still needs a human eye to make it actually usable, but as a brainstorming partner, it’s kind of crazy good.
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