From LaurieWired.

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