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Top Gainers

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
Cost per task 40 (29 recorded) +3900.0%
Cloud agents 68 (49 recorded) +1600.0%
MLX 28 (20 recorded) +833.3%
Loop engineering 35 (25 recorded) +600.0%
Subagents 93 (67 recorded) +389.5%

Top Declines

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
RAG 738 (534 recorded) -61.4%
Edge Computing 11 (8 recorded) -56.0%
Data Pipeline 151 (109 recorded) -43.7%
LLM 1,554 (1,124 recorded) -39.4%
Developer Experience 149 (108 recorded) -37.7%

All Tracked Topics

Filter Data
Topic Keywords Mentions Posts Companies Forecast YoY Change
AI Agents Concept ai agent ai agents agentic ai +2 more 3,736 (2,702 recorded) 3,317 (2,399 recorded) 262 +29.3%
MCP Concept mcp model context protocol 2,507 (1,813 recorded) 1,822 (1,318 recorded) 215 -9.6%
Real-time Concept real-time realtime real time +2 more 2,240 (1,620 recorded) 2,334 (1,688 recorded) 218 -24.5%
LLM Concept llm large language model llms +1 more 1,554 (1,124 recorded) 1,327 (960 recorded) 184 -39.4%
Observability Concept observability o11y tracing +1 more 1,197 (866 recorded) 1,070 (774 recorded) 117 -3.5%
Vector Search Concept vector search vector database vector db +3 more 1,094 (791 recorded) 859 (621 recorded) 83 +14.4%
Voice AI Concept voice ai voice agent voice agents +7 more 860 (622 recorded) 669 (484 recorded) 65 +28.4%
RAG Concept rag retrieval augmented generation retrieval-augmented 738 (534 recorded) 536 (388 recorded) 80 -61.4%
AI Coding Assistant Concept copilot ai coding code assistant +2 more 578 (418 recorded) 701 (507 recorded) 126 +52.5%
OpenClaw Concept openclaw clawdbot moltbot +2 more 530 (383 recorded) 401 (290 recorded) 82 --
Kubernetes Concept kubernetes k8s k8 +1 more 372 (269 recorded) 312 (226 recorded) 70 -23.5%
Secrets Management Concept secrets management secret management vault +1 more 336 (243 recorded) 325 (235 recorded) 63 +29.7%
Serverless Concept serverless lambda functions as a service +1 more 332 (240 recorded) 344 (249 recorded) 51 -31.0%
Multi-agent systems Concept multi-agent distributed agents distributed agent systems +4 more 297 (215 recorded) 271 (196 recorded) 65 -7.5%
OpenTelemetry Concept opentelemetry otel open telemetry 265 (192 recorded) 210 (152 recorded) 33 -7.0%
AI Model Fine-tuning Concept fine-tuning fine tuning finetuning +4 more 174 (126 recorded) 147 (106 recorded) 42 -22.3%
Data Pipeline Concept data pipeline etl elt +2 more 151 (109 recorded) 138 (100 recorded) 44 -43.7%
Developer Experience Concept developer experience dx devx +1 more 149 (108 recorded) 134 (97 recorded) 56 -37.7%
AI Guardrails Concept ai guardrails ai safety responsible ai +6 more 123 (89 recorded) 112 (81 recorded) 33 +5.1%
Gemini 3.7 Flash Implementation LLM gemini 3.7 flash 3.7 flash 101 (73 recorded) 48 (35 recorded) 16 --
Platform Engineering Concept platform engineering internal developer platform idp +1 more 94 (68 recorded) 90 (65 recorded) 38 -16.1%
Subagents Concept subagents agent delegation agent fan-out +3 more 93 (67 recorded) 77 (56 recorded) 34 +389.5%
Zero Trust Concept zero trust zero-trust ztna 90 (65 recorded) 80 (58 recorded) 17 +16.9%
TPUs Concept tensor processing unit tpu tpus +3 more 83 (60 recorded) 51 (37 recorded) 8 +232.0%
Cloud agents Concept cloud agents server-side agents managed ai agents +4 more 68 (49 recorded) 62 (45 recorded) 14 +1600.0%
Harness engineering Concept harness engineering agent harness engineering agent behavior +5 more 68 (49 recorded) 65 (47 recorded) 28 +112.5%
Local AI Concept local ai models on-device ai private ai +6 more 57 (41 recorded) 55 (40 recorded) 18 +58.3%
WebMCP Concept WebMCP 48 (35 recorded) 40 (29 recorded) 14 --
Cost per task Concept cost per task cost per successful task intelligence per dollar +5 more 40 (29 recorded) 40 (29 recorded) 17 +3900.0%
Loop engineering Concept agent loops agentic loops loop engineering +4 more 35 (25 recorded) 30 (22 recorded) 19 +600.0%
Reinforcement learning Concept reinforcement learning reward-based learning rlhf +3 more 32 (23 recorded) 32 (23 recorded) 14 -23.8%
MLX Concept mlx mlx framework apple silicon ml +2 more 28 (20 recorded) 21 (15 recorded) 6 +833.3%
Agent Plugins Concept agent plugins specification agent plugins v1 agent plugins 1.0 +5 more 24 (17 recorded) 14 (10 recorded) 8 --
Agent sandbox Concept ai agent sandbox sandboxed agent runtime agent container +6 more 11 (8 recorded) 11 (8 recorded) 4 +266.7%
Edge Computing Concept edge computing edge function edge runtime +1 more 11 (8 recorded) 11 (8 recorded) 7 -56.0%
Token engineering Concept tokenbudgeting token cost optimization token spend control +3 more 3 (2 recorded) 3 (2 recorded) 2 --
AI Coding Agent Pricing Implementation AI Coding Assistant Cloud agents Loop engineering Token engineering ai coding subscription llm coding pricing ai coding agent pricing +8 more 0 (0 recorded) 0 (0 recorded) 0 --
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