My crystal ball is only slightly better than a second-hand Magic 8 Ball, but gazing into it for a preview of 2024 provides a little clarity. Namely, non-stop hype for AI/ML and direct impacts on open source.
Money and resources follow hype, so projects and efforts that don’t have an AI/ ML cast are going to have a harder time finding support. This is worse than previous hype cycles around things such as Linux containers, Kubernetes and open source IaaS – which all solve real and immediate problems.