By 2026, AI won't just be the shiny new toy anymore—it'll be the real deal. That's when most people finally wake up to what's actually possible. We're talking about genuine 100x jumps in how you work, what you produce, and how fast you get there. Skills get amplified. Productivity explodes. Output scales in ways that seemed impossible just a couple years back. The shift from "that's cool tech" to "this is how we actually work now" hits different. It's not hype at that point—it's just your new baseline.