Ask HN: What are your technology trends predictions for 2023?

1) As generating content at scale becomes more accessible , social media might become completely useless. Making "closed groups" more mainstream.

2) A new Spam filter will be desperately required to fight mail and blog junk generated by chatgpt like models.

3) Students might be able to learn coding fast assisted by AI, instead of searching for issues, as they can get instant response.

Here's my company's collective list - https://terminusdb.com/blog/tech-trends-for-2023/ - the one I particularly like and hope happens is cloud services as a public utility.

Seems like someone successfully predicted Russia invading a country (Ukraine).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746655

Another one, even more accurate with the energy crisis we are having right now in Europe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746942

- Microsoft will continue to grow. Their tech ecosystem is hyper-expansive, touching everything related to development and IT (.Net, TypeScript, Github, VSCode, PowerPlatform, Azure, etc.). Please don't directly come at me with moral qualms or commentary on the quality of their products - I'm just the messenger.

- Low-code tooling will see a growth spurt, not driven by "citizen developers" but by increased developer adoption of technologies that offer a good DX and a capability to integrate seamlessly into "normal" dev workflows. Tech like Retool, Plasmic, Builder.io, PowerPlatform, new-gen ETLs, etc.

- The "citizen developer" paradigm will remain largely unsolved. The vision holds all its initial potential but it requires a multi-pronged, universal, push involving corporate politics, compliance, security, training, etc. that cannot be solved by a single company. We might see interesting initiatives or companies built around this in 2023, but a year won't be enough time to solve it.

- There will be a massive proliferation of GPT-based apps. Many will be shite, a few will be useful.

- Rising interest rates will push investment mass away from startups and into the other end of the spectrum: good old bonds and other fixed-rate assets.

- There will be a rising movement of software dev methodologies and training on how to use AI-assisted coding (Copilot, ChatGPT) effectively.

- ChatGPT will not replace coders at least in 2023, and the bitter non-tech people who are expressing uninformed opinions on its code-gen capabilities, observing from the sidelines and waiting for some sort of comeuppance, are not going to get it.

- React will continue to be a standard but coding a form will be as difficult as it was back in fucking 2013. I love the tech otherwise, but c'mon.

this is the year of the linux desktop of course!