Bryan Cantrill

One-year prediction.

Brian finally joins the podcast.

In 2024, if you remember, I did the Apple VR will do well in a second version and then that has not happened at all.

So that was a big miss.

Okay.

I'm really proud of my one year from last year, though, because I said congestion pricing in NYC will be an unambiguous success.

It will still exist and sentiment will be positive.

And the mayor did a press announcement like 45 minutes ago about how awesome congestion pricing is and how much everybody loves it.

So I got that one like exactly nailed.

I read it.

I went back and forth on this because I sort of had the same thought at first when Brian said this, but then I think I agreed with him more as he went along.

The thing is, is that vibe coding is too good of a term for both the haters and the people who like it.

Like it's just too attractive, I think, just like as a concept.

And so I feel like it's already sullied to many people, but people are still using it because it's also just such a good term.

My one year here is like very similar in the sense of, I think one of the things I like about doing this is that you go back and you see what, especially in one years, I think it's like, what was I thinking about at the time?

Right?

Like I haven't thought about congestion pricing in like six months basically.

And then now I'm like, oh yeah, I was really interested in that a year ago.

And so I decided to pick the thing that I'm really kind of intrigued about right this second.

And maybe I won't even care about two months from now, which is agent orchestration will still be a hot topic and it'll be partially, but not entirely solved.