Predictions for the year 2023

Generative AI

The ecosystem will be flooded by crypto/NFT refugees and startups looking for business models will raise absurd amounts of money while the rest of us wonder if the world turned stupid again.
Generative AI will result in obnoxious chat-bots and customer-support SaaS that will make the entire process even more kafkaesque.
Developers will be able to just npm install their way into ML without having to learn the fundamentals

We will see A/R glasses from Apple, with privacy as a selling point.
Zuckerberg will quietly and slowly drop the meta-verse and resume investing in Instagram as it fades away from cultural relevance.

Algorithms will be the de-facto and ultimate judge of character. If Tiktok says you like water-polo, that means deep inside you like water-polo.

Twitter will be assigned a ridiculous CEO and will start a 3 year dive out of media/culture relevance as Gen-Z don’t care for it.
Tesla stock will continue to drop, as more established companies build better EVs more reliable and with better quality.

Mastodon will be successful, but nothing like Twitter or Facebook. The intended lack of features and fragmentation will prevent it from being a network for viral content or events.
TikTok will lose creators to YouTube, especially if they don’t fix their monetization and bots problems.

React will continue to rule as the web platform at least for another few years, but the momentum will slow.
Next.js will overshadow Remix, as the latter doesn’t offer enough competitive advantage to sway away users.
SvelteKit will be the fastest growing framework but it will be mostly for smaller/hobby projects.
Despite the initial hype, Rome tools, Deno & Bun will be quasi abandoned as the ecosystem outpaces their release cycle and the benefits don’t merit the headache of migration.
Rust will leak in most software tooling and we will see attempts at a Django-like framework.