i guess everyone know this was coming, no one believed they'd be first. 2026 will as the year when AI roots took. and things changed forever.
i first noticed it when the <cursor> icon showed up, then immediately disappeared in the battery usage readout. i remember it well - we had just returned from dinner at the beloved <city> mandarin - chinese restaurant, we had taken the new family car, bumping around on potholey roads and stop-go traffic, with delivery riders zooming in and out ahead of us. as the kids dropped off to sleep, i opened my laptop as usual and was fake-working.