Andreas von Studnitz is a senior software architect at Hyvä. He is a Magento developer by trade, and he was appointed a Magento Master in 2019 and 2020. He is also a co-founder of integer_net, the German Magento agency that co-invented Hyvä. Andreas is a father of three and likes board games and video games, travelling, cycling, running and skiing.
Meet Magento Poland 2026
Magento in 2026: An Honest Update
Magento is competitive again in 2026, and the reasons are solid. This is a plain overview of where the platform stands today and who is driving it forward: the Magento Association, Adobe, Mage-OS, Hyvä and an active community. It also shows where open source keeps clear advantages over SaaS shops like Shopify, which is useful for anyone weighing that choice.
Around 2020 it was fair to worry about Magento. Adobe looked distracted, the frontend felt dated, and merchants were drifting to Shopware and Shopify. In 2026 the picture looks very different, and the turnaround came from a handful of players who each took on a different part of the problem. This talk walks through what actually happened over the last six years and who made it happen.
The second thread is why this matters beyond Magento itself. The industry spent years insisting the landscape was changing, from headless and composable to AI on top of everything. AI gets its own honest look here: where it genuinely helps a shop, and where it is mostly the latest round of noise. Alongside that, the talk asks why reliability turned out to matter more than novelty, and how open source really compares to a SaaS shop like Shopify once a business starts to grow. Less hype, more of an honest status report.
Better Magento Code, Written with AI
AI-assisted development can raise the quality of Magento code instead of lowering it if done right. Andreas will tell you how and why. The examples come from how Hyvä builds and maintains software day to day, including features that exist only because the cost of attempting them dropped.
The bigger question is what this does to the people writing the code. The job of a Magento developer is changing rapidly. Some tasks are gone. Others matter more than they used to. Anyone starting out today is entering a field that no longer works the way it did ten years ago.
This is a status report from inside the change rather than a forecast. Expect concrete examples and a few maybe surprising conclusions.