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We predicted the future: Space Welders, 2017 vs 2026
From 2015 to 2017, Mike and Steve called the next decade of tech every week. With nine years of hindsight, here's the scorecard.
The makers didn't get the memo
It's 2026 and the official story is that AI does everything now. Yet the videos that actually went round this weekend were four people making things by hand — an animation app, a 3D display, an ocean, and a very good rant. That's not a coincidence. That's an episode of the show.
The tools started using themselves
In 2016 the show joked that there was a bot for everything. In July 2026 the trending repos are agents that drive the browser, the debugger and the IDE — no human at the keyboard required. A dispatch from the week the tooling turned around.
What a 2015 podcast got right (and hilariously wrong) about AI
Space Welders talked about machine learning before it was cool — and well before it could write its own show notes. A look at the calls that aged like wine and the ones that aged like milk.
Ninety-one episodes is a lot of podcast. Here's a curated way in — by mood, by theme, and by the episodes worth your first hour.
2015 to 2026: the tech news cycle, then and now
Replaying the Space Welders archive is like opening a time capsule of tech panic and hype. Some of it vanished without a trace. Some of it is still on the front page.