What are your predictions for 2026?

Question

What are your predictions for this coming year?

Bender · Accepted Answer

Some people will write 2025 on forms asking for the current year.

RaccoonAttack · Answer

No predictions, only wish next year bad things no so much. And f** u 2025.

mfrw · Answer

Previous Years:- 2025: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42490343- 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38777115- 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125628- 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746236- 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25594068- 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802596- 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753859- 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007988- 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10809767- 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822723- 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994370- 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395201- 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970023- 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681- 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416530

brynet · Answer

I finally get adopted by a nice family of sentient pizzas in 2026.https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

brihati · Answer

In the software engineering world, in 2026 we saw a wave of code assistant products. In 2026, we will see a wave of designing software architecture products, not just on greenfield projects but also brownfield projects.

ksaj · Answer

YouTube will be so inundated by AI cat and dog videos that people stop watching them altogether. People will automatically assume anything labeled "cute" is fake.

rozenmd · Answer

Last year I predicted: People will continue to run websites, and need to know when they're down (god, I hope).My 2026 prediction is that people will continue running websites and buiding web apps that need monitoring, more than ever before.

silexia · Answer

The USD will devalue 5-10% further.Flock and other government tools for watching and controlling you will expand.Big companies will expand their regulatory capture, especially in medical care. Fingers will continue to be pointed at health insurance as the problem while the real problem of an artificially limited supply of doctors goes unaddressed.Government agencies will continue their slow bloat as no mechanism exists for government like bankruptcy in the private sector.Patent trolls will expand their lawsuits and extort more legitimate businesses.The far left will assassinate more Republican leaders.