Amazon CTO Werner Vogels sat down with the Changelog to walk through his published predictions for 2026 and beyond, covering three specific bets: consumer robots redefining companionship, quantum-safe cryptography becoming a baseline requirement, and a new class of developer he calls the renaissance developer.
The predictions are published in full on Vogels' blog allthingsdistributed.com, but the interview is where the reasoning lives. Vogels connects these trends to deeper shifts in how software is built, secured, and who builds it. The quantum-safe angle in particular is not speculative. NIST finalized its first post-quantum cryptography standards in 2024, and Vogels is arguing the industry clock is already running.
Read the original prediction post first, then listen to the episode for the logic behind each call. The renaissance developer framing alone is worth the full runtime.
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