How AWS hopes to shape the future of hallucination machines
From Werner Vogels’ off-script predictions to new silicon and a sharpened startup pitch, AWS re:Invent was both theatre and intent.
At a Las Vegas super-conference built on precision messaging, Werner Vogels seemed determined not to supply concise answers.
In a rare, tightly rationed interview with six global journalists, including Capital Brief, the longtime Amazon CTO swung around constantly in his chair and rolled through ideas faster than the press could wedge in a question.
Vogels wanted to talk about his 2026 Predictions, an annual tradition, which he also distributed after his keynote at re:Invent in Las Vegas as an actual newspaper. Capital Brief's travel and accommodation costs to attend re:Invent were covered by AWS.
Vogels insisted these predictions are not the usual futurist projections.
“The Renaissance developer,” he said, “is actually not about AI.”
It is about how people adapt when new tools take over once-specialised tasks — how technologists should think of themselves not as passengers of automation but as agents shaping its human consequences.
