For some context, this is from an “unpopular opinions” section of the podcast where they specifically ask for a controversial opinion. In the ensuing discussion, the prediction is further qualified:

> I’m not gonna say it’s gonna replace every use case; it’s clearly not. But for certain high-performance latency-sensitive use cases like trying to deliver feature flags globally to mobile apps, or web apps around the world (that is our use case)… it’s definitely very applicable to this problem.

I do think that if WASI gets sockets and threading soon as planned, it suddenly becomes compelling for a bunch of interesting workloads that containers are used for now.