Days in the Life of Mo

Every December, developers everywhere start whispering the same quiet prayer: “Next year will be different.”

Different how, exactly?
Fewer bugs? More sleep? Maybe fewer “quick calls” that turn into stand-up comedy sessions about broken APIs?

But beyond the debugging, the feature flags, and the caffeine dependency, we all carry a little hope.
A hope that the next year will bring smoother builds, smarter tools, and maybe (just maybe) fewer existential crises over deployment errors that “worked on my machine.”

So, here it is: a developer’s hopeful wishlist for 2026.

1. May AI Stop Being So Confidently Wrong

Don’t get me wrong, AI has been a helpful teammate this year.
But when it hallucinates code with the confidence of a toddler holding a crayon and declaring it’s “art,” we start to lose patience.

Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and even Google’s Gemini have come far. They’ve changed the way we code, debug, and learn. According to Stack Overflow’s 2024 Developer Survey, over 70% of developers now use AI tools daily. But let’s be real, AI still writes bugs faster than we can type git revert.

So here’s to 2026, the year AI stops gaslighting us into thinking the syntax error was our fault.

2. More Human Meetings, Please

You know the ones.
The “quick sync” that turns into a Shakespearean tragedy about miscommunication and scope creep.

Here’s a wild thought: what if meetings started with,

“How’s everyone actually doing?”

Developers are human beings, not just ticket machines wrapped in hoodies. The pandemic blurred that line, and even now, many of us are still trying to unlearn the constant “always-on” mindset.

In 2026, may our meetings be shorter, kinder, and occasionally replaced by a well-written message in Slack.

3. Documentation That Doesn’t Hate Us

If I had a rand for every “TODO: add documentation” I’ve seen this year, I could retire and live off interest.

Documentation should feel like a conversation, not an archaeological dig. When done right, it’s like a love letter to future developers… proof that you cared enough to make someone else’s life easier.

So, dear 2026:
May the docs be complete, the comments helpful, and the Stack Overflow answers still free.

4. More Time for Side Projects and Play

Not everything we build needs a Jira ticket. Some things deserve to be made simply because they make us curious.

Alan Turing once said, “Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”
Turing wasn’t just solving logic problems; he was playing. With puzzles. With ideas. With possibility.

We forget that side projects are our playgrounds, the places where we rediscover why we fell in love with code in the first place.

Here’s to 2026, where we build more things just because.

5. Work That Feels Like Ours Again

We’ve spent the last few years chasing balance, between remote and office, output and rest, code and chaos.

But maybe 2026 isn’t about balance. Maybe it’s about belonging.
To the projects we build, the teams we grow with, and the purpose that keeps us showing up every Monday (even when Jenkins fails again).

We want to build things that matter.
That’s the real wishlist item.

So Here’s to 2026.

To fewer null nightmares and more “aha!” moments.
To kinder teammates and cleaner merges.
To learning, laughing, failing, fixing… and doing it all over again.

2026 won’t be perfect. But maybe that’s the point.
We’ll build it, break it, and build it again… just like we always do.

And somehow, that’s enough.

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