Although the name “DeveloperWeek” may be a bit of a misnomer—it was, in fact, less than a week—DeveloperWeek 2026 was, in every other way, exactly as one might expect: an event teeming with the latest and greatest tooling, workflows, and ideas for the technical superheroes keeping all of our favorite products, websites, and infrastructure alive. While no big technological announcements—or cars—were dropped at this event à la re:Invent, the smaller, more intimate affair certainly centered around the actual everyday work of developers, who need to get into the nitty gritty of their codebases and tools to someday achieve that prophesied 10x development. And at the heart of the conversations at DeveloperWeek 2026 is the question we’ve all been asking: are AI tools actually good? One thing that seems to be the rock in everyone’s shoe—at least at DeveloperWeek—is the usability of AI tools.…