By Ander Rodriguez

2026 is going to be the year of hybrid AI, with AI being further integrated in various sectors including my own, data scraping.

Multiple companies are spending a lot of time testing in agentic but then not going into production as the tech is not quite there, so in the coming months we’ll see companies satisfied with using the elements of agentic that work, and then using AI to speed up workflows, but still using humans to guide the automation. 

One of the biggest shifts we will see however, even bigger than the adoption of hybrid AI, is attitudinal.

The most significant barrier that is going to face us all, and not just in 2026 but for at least the next five years, is a huge employment gap.  Junior people........

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