Ask HN: 2026 Predictions
Kinda early with this one, but I’ll start:
1. There will be at least one AI personality that will become household famous.
1. There will be at least one AI personality that will become household famous.
The next administration is dealing with a high inflation environment but their policies are also inflationary adding more fuel to the fire, while the DoGE stuff is pretty unrealistic. You will probably get tax cuts funded by QE.
And I'm not saying Democrats are any better than Republicans. We are in a duopoly with an illusion of choice. Both sides love to lavish their corporate donors.
I don't think inflation is low right now. They're working overtime to make it look low.
Democrats are 1000 times better than Republicans. The "both sides" rhetoric is literally propaganda.
They are not perfect by any means, but they have managed to fix every single Republican fuckup, are way more effective in passing legislation, especially bipartisan, and also dont have a record of trying to overthrow the government with a coupe, amongst many other things.
Im honestly hoping for this administration to do all the stuff they said they want to do, like tarifs, ban on abortion, removal of vaccinces, gutting of healthcare, and so on so that people who believe that both sides are bad actually feel some real pain, because thats the only way to make them understand political reality.
My prediction is that you are gonna see more ML powered transpilers/compliers that are going to be able to make high level code aot or jit compile to more optimized native code.
The moat keeps drying up every time its flooded, and people are quite happy splashing around in blowup paddling pools
Ai personal assistant who knows me and understands what I want
Ais chat among each other to figure out if their “owners” are good matches. If they are the ais set up a time and place for the first date
Does Alexa count? Because that's already true then.
My prediction: Between AI search results, the various LLM platforms, and improved phone assistants, traffic to web sites drops at least 10% across the board by the end of 2025.
- Any personality traits - Any apperance
it's as dumb as a box of rocks
The ancillary tasks those MLEs were doing (data prep, model perf analysis, etc) will fall on other nearby roles (backend/data eng or data annalists). Ultimately I speculate that all of this work will end up being another integration backend/generalist engineers will handle.
Hopefully not too soon. I just bought $30,000 in BITI, an ETF that tracks the inverse of Bitcoin. Basically the only way to short Bitcoin from a typical retail investment account.
I hope you're right but bubbles tend to go through an exponential blow-off phase before the crash which often takes out shorts who were right but too early.
2027 will be a more concentrated tech market with fewer small players and more money going toward "sure thing" investments in businesses with a clean track record that are too big to fail. This would be great for established high-risk brands like Tesla, provide plausible deniability for economists that only wanted to put America first, and likely crush most chances for small businesses to compete. Assuming the Trump administration intentionally gimps the DOJ (I mean, why wouldn't they?), America will be at the whims of it's own wily market.