Almost Happy New Year! 🎅🏻 Observations and trends of the outgoing/upcoming year, countdown:
🔟 Social networks have lost their actual social aspect - as a result, "polished content" will lose to "human content." Social media will be the losing side in the AI era.
9️⃣ The share of low-code, no-code, vibe-code has significantly displaced classic development, especially for MVP projects.
8️⃣ The minimal IT team is now a product manager with low-code, no-code, vibe-code skills.
7️⃣ Imperfection as a sign of human work with soul - is no longer just Japanese philosophy. Make mistakes, typos, and all that :)
6️⃣ Design, video content - it's also harder to "surprise" now; rather, people have accumulated fatigue from the noise, and there is a demand for standardization.
5️⃣ Software is being absorbed by AI very quickly, so startups linked with hardware are more resilient, as hardware isn't generated by AI yet, at least not in 2026, so we sleep peacefully.
4️⃣ The concept of an "IT-based project" is a redundant term, as now there are practically no projects left without AI.
3️⃣ 1C products are on the rise as beneficiaries in the software market that has been freed up.
2️⃣ The concept of classic LMS projects and wiki-like knowledge bases is transforming into more dynamically updated systems that are easier to maintain and use as mentors.
1️⃣ By the end of the year, we expect the most demand for affordable online stores, to get off the needle of marketplaces saturated with suffocating rules. Russia doesn't have Shopify; the main tools will be Tilda, 1C for those needing integration with warehouse and accounting.
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