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Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2031
Swyx: AI context windows will remain capped near 1M for 5-10 years
“And, like, this is not gonna go to a hundred million context windows. It's not gonna go to a trillion. Like, we're, this is it. This is it for, like, five years. 10 years.”
Shawn Wang Feb 24, 2026 ▶ 1:48:33 Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis

Closed calls (4) the full record →

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Swix: Overcast will basically never have searchable transcripts
“I should have a podcast that has transcripts that I can search. Very, very basic thing. Overcast will basically never have it.”
Shawn Wang Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 22:39 Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Swyx: OpenAI will always release both general and Codex model variants
“I'm pretty, like, have pretty high confidence that basically OpenAI will always release a GPT-V and a GPT-V codex.”
Shawn Wang Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 36:15 Inside AI’s $10B+ Capital Flywheel — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z
Prediction Partly held up
Swyx: Windsurf will stick around as an active product post-acquisition
“I think Windsurf as a product is going to stick around, and people who really like Windsurf, I mean, I was a Windsurf user for a long time we are going to keep using it because it fills a need, and like, obviously, Cognition bought it for a reason.”
Shawn Wang Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 44:51 The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Swix: OpenAI will issue a cryptocurrency token to fund compute
“There is still one more shoe to drop, which is the non sovereign wealth funding that open AI needs to get, which they've promised to drop by the end of this year. And my money is on, they have to do a coin. Like it's, I'm not a crypto guy at all, but like, y…”
Shawn Wang Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 49:13 Why RL Won — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe (acq. CoreWeave)
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