--- title: QCon London 2026: Tools That Enable the Next 1B Developers description: At QCon London 2026, Ivan Zarea from Netlify explored how AI is reshaping who builds for the web, noting the platform grew from 6M to 11M developers in under a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/qcon-london-2026-tools-that-enable-the-next-1b-developers-dlqmiyecq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: QCon London 2026: Tools That Enable the Next 1B Developers | daily.dev og:description: At QCon London 2026, Ivan Zarea from Netlify explored how AI is reshaping who builds for the web, noting the platform grew from 6M to 11M developers in under a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/qcon-london-2026-tools-that-enable-the-next-1b-developers-dlqmiyecq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dLqmiYEcq.png og:image:alt: QCon London 2026: Tools That Enable the Next 1B Developers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # QCon London 2026: Tools That Enable the Next 1B Developers **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary At QCon London 2026, Ivan Zarea from Netlify explored how AI is reshaping who builds for the web, noting the platform grew from 6M to 11M developers in under a year, with many new builders being non-traditional domain experts. He outlined three pillars for developer tool builders: developing expertise (architecture matters more than code volume), honing taste (designing for both human and agent users, e.g., redesigning Netlify CLI for AI parseability), and practicing clairvoyance (anticipating an agentic future, citing Next.js shipping agents.md and MCP support). Data showed rising Vite adoption, declining Webpack usage, and a shrinking incumbency advantage as framework-switching costs fall. The core message: engineering teams must become architects, establishing guardrails for security and consistency as non-traditional developers proliferate. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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