Your RAM is an illusion.  The moon needs a new timezone.  Compilers might start vibe...compiling.  Welcome to 2026.

In this video, I break down my biggest Computer Science predictions for the year!

What do you think, do you agree? Disagree?  Let me know in the comments!

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Timestamps:
00:00 Treating RAM like a...Network?
03:55 Lunar Timezones
07:10 Rust vs C++ vs CHERI?
10:58 Slopsquatting
13:40 Non-deterministic ML Compilers?

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2026 Predictions (simplified):

65% - At least one major cloud provider will release compute offerings with a "tiered" or "burstable" memory class where you explicitly pay less for memory backed by CXL

80% - A published implementation strategy for official Coordinated Lunar Time as an operational standard

40% - A mass produced consumer device ships with a CHERI-enabled processor

70% - A major developer package repository has to temporarily halt registrations for +24hrs

65% - LLVM MLGO lists 3+ ML-guided heuristics

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References / Cited Papers (too big to paste, google doc):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRXYiL-rQV0J1XXoQAzsOiObvAxv23nl-9GGcpDeX6lbD_ENNHvvXY4bftV-f3j93xdRUmNzQJ2KzSl/pub

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A set of five technical predictions for 2026 covering: (1) CXL-backed tiered memory becoming a cloud offering as RAM prices rise and the Linux kernel matures its memory tiering support; (2) a coordinated lunar time standard being officially published, driven by general relativity making moon-time drift from Earth-time; (3) CHERI (Cherry) capability-based hardware memory safety gaining traction as a hardware-level alternative to rewriting codebases in Rust; (4) a major package repository like npm being forced to shut down registrations due to AI-assisted supply chain attacks and 'slop squatting'; and (5) LLVM adding a third ML-guided optimization heuristic, making compiler output non-deterministic at maximum optimization levels.

2026 Computer Science Predictions

<p>rise of the machines? didn’t read that kkk</p>
