I started this all with a single tweet.

I got snarkier than usual because X seems to favor a little 🌶️ take to get eyeballs. These predictions are a healthy dose of my opinions and musings as a design & tech geek.

https://x.com/petesena/status/1874174514319307172

Why I think some of them might come true (with almost as much satire as I wrote them with?)

• I worked with the engineer that made USB ports mainstream in cars
• I’ve worked with and on emerging technologies for 20+ years. I put some of the worlds leading brands on Facebook, Instagram and countless other platforms that are either public companies today or ended up in the growing startup graveyard list.
• I predicted the NFT boom (and Crypto winter) crash that came shortly after
• I design and build in public. You can find my other thoughts mostly on Medium - https://medium.com/@petesena or by tuning into my bi-weekly free newsletter

Who the f**k is Pete Sena?

My AI can’t live without list:

1. ClaudeGPT is your new co-founder. AI coding platforms like v0, Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Ohara are replacing cranky technical cofounders. If you can think it, you can build it.

Key takeaway:

Code is becoming a commodity, but vision remains priceless. The real moat isn't technical skill—it's clarity of thought. When AI handles the execution, the founder who can think clearly and articulate precisely becomes unstoppable. The best technical co-founder is now the one that never sleeps, never complains and takes 0% equity. Success in the AI era isn't about knowing how to code—it's about knowing what to build for what audience. The winners will be the founders who can think from first principles and translate imagination into clear instructions. Technical debt is disappearing; cognitive clarity is the new capital.

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Truebomb: The 10X engineers will become 100X engineers. Some of these platforms will die as quickly as they popped up, but some of them are quite literally the future we’re headed towards. Where we command our systems using natural language and voice. Use them the right way and you can turn your ideas into fast prototypes. Don’t mistake my hot takes as discounting the power of craft and talent. I’ve been writing software for 20+ years.

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