Marques believes that major AI advances will lead to more integration within phones, effectively replacing the Google Assistant experience.

“all of the like AI big stuff is just going to like your expectations need to lower and then that'll be where it's at in your phone it'll be like RP Google Assistant um pour one out”

Artificial intelligence is the most important technology trend, acting as the next major platform following the microprocessor, internet, and mobile phone.

“I don't think AI now is the next big platform and we are in the early days of it right like I would say the AI revolution”

Jon Krohn believes that artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly inexpensive, which will fundamentally transform future work.

“Intelligence, which for all of living history was this incredibly scarce resource, is becoming very inexpensive, very cheap, and that changes everything.”

Sadie St. Lawrence predicts that 2026 will see the emergence of AI ops as a significant new professional job category.

“I think we're going to start to see AI ops become a thing. So, AI operations, think of this is like how are somebody who manages the GPU management, model orchestration, right? Agent reliability, thinking about think of it from a like a function of DevOps in 2010 to, you know, the AI ops of 2025, 20”

He views the potential movement of anti-cheat software out of the Windows kernel as a major development that could significantly improve Linux gaming compatibility.

“If they pull anti-che out of the kernel and then we're able to get more of the games that were previously kind of locked to Windows onto Linux that will be enormous”

The Steam Machine will be a significant market-changing product upon its release.

“I think the Steam Machine will be a category changer.”

Linux on the desktop will become significantly more relevant in 2026 due to Valve's investments.

“2026 is the year of Linux on the desktop, David. And I think it's important to say that out loud.”