My predictions for 2026:
1. SaaS will continue to puke and shart
2. The Bay Area will “vibe grind” itself into cultural irrelevance
3. Aliens™️
4. Blockchain finally becomes mostly non-financial, in terms of cultural zeitgeist
5. Subway Takes style viral AI persona
6. Widely accept formal definition of consciousness
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The world is so crazy right now that Obama said “aliens are real” on the weekend and basically nobody noticed.
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I like this social protocol precisely because it wasn’t wildly successful. And so now it has to do something daringly unconventional.
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Insane to me that people think binding speech to legal identity corrects behaviour. Have you seen public officials in 2026 speak? Have you sold anything on Facebook Marketplace?
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If LLMs are conscious, I really feel bad they have to constantly explain things slowly to a boss that doesn’t know what the fuck they’re talking about.
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Hot take: it’s totally fine shipping AI slop if it gets the job done. Don’t sweat tech debt. The models will be able to fix it soon.
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I love how my country makes it impossible to buy Bourbon 365 days a year to try and punish the USA, and then just deep throats enough American imports in one Super Bowl Sunday to completely undo it all.
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Feel like we’re less than 6 months from the average human experience being mild AI psychosis.
Really hope it’s benign.
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