Predictions 2026!!

Predictions 2026!!

From Oxide and Friends by Oxide Computer Company

January 8, 2026 · 1h 39m · Season 6 · Episode 1

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on future predictions in technology with insights from various guests.

Time for the annual predictions episode! Bryan and Adam were joined by frequent future-ologists Simon Willison, Steve Klabnik, and Ian Grunert to review past predictions and peer into the future. If any of these predictions come to fruition, it's going to be an interest 1, 3, or 6 years! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , speakers included Simon Willison , Steve Klabnik , and Ian Grunert . Previously on Oxide and Friends: OxF s04e02 – Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison OxF s02e23 – Predictions 2022 OxF s03e20 – Predictions 2023! OxF s04e01 – Predictions 2024! OxF s05e01 – Predictions 2025 Predictions during the show: Adam 1 year: AI companies go on an acquisition binge (especially for anything that smells like data) 3 year: Crisis of AI slop open source (both projects and contributions) 6 year: Jensen hands over the reins at Nvidia 6 year: Tesla is out of the consumer car business 6 year: With the iPhone market shrinking, Apple has several new attempts at the next potential flagship product Bryan 1 year: "Vibe coding" is out of the lexicon -- or used strictly pejoratively it becomes a named condition (for which Adam -- in an act of nomenclature genius rivaling…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bryan Cantrill, Adam Leventhal

Guests: Simon Willison, Steve Klabnik, Ian Grunert

Topics covered

  • predictions
  • technology
  • AI
  • future trends
  • open source

Keywords

  • predictions
  • AI
  • technology
  • future
  • open source
  • Nvidia
  • Tesla
  • Apple

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nvidia, Tesla, Apple

Products: Harvey.ai

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