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Top Gainers

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
Loop engineering 129 (93 recorded) +1333.3%
Cloud agents 64 (46 recorded) +966.7%
Harness engineering 157 (113 recorded) +647.6%
Subagents 148 (107 recorded) +543.5%
Local AI 255 (184 recorded) +129.7%

Top Declines

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
Edge Computing 28 (20 recorded) -61.6%
Data Pipeline 278 (200 recorded) -47.8%
Serverless 744 (536 recorded) -28.6%
RAG 1,445 (1,041 recorded) -25.7%
Real-time 4,051 (2,919 recorded) -21.4%

All Tracked Topics

Filter Data
Topic Keywords Mentions Posts Companies Forecast YoY Change
AI Agents Concept ai agent ai agents agentic ai +2 more 9,654 (6,956 recorded) 4,504 (3,245 recorded) 265 +75.7%
MCP Concept mcp model context protocol 7,289 (5,252 recorded) 2,286 (1,647 recorded) 215 +6.0%
Observability Concept observability o11y tracing +1 more 5,399 (3,890 recorded) 2,529 (1,822 recorded) 148 +60.4%
LLM Concept llm large language model llms +1 more 4,824 (3,476 recorded) 2,637 (1,900 recorded) 226 +10.0%
Real-time Concept real-time realtime real time +2 more 4,051 (2,919 recorded) 2,502 (1,803 recorded) 214 -21.4%
AI Coding Assistant Concept copilot ai coding code assistant +2 more 3,021 (2,177 recorded) 1,701 (1,226 recorded) 164 +107.1%
Voice AI Concept voice ai voice agent voice agents +7 more 2,197 (1,583 recorded) 722 (520 recorded) 65 +30.6%
Vector Search Concept vector search vector database vector db +3 more 1,924 (1,386 recorded) 903 (651 recorded) 83 -18.9%
Kubernetes Concept kubernetes k8s k8 +1 more 1,858 (1,339 recorded) 1,041 (750 recorded) 87 -15.2%
RAG Concept rag retrieval augmented generation retrieval-augmented 1,445 (1,041 recorded) 665 (479 recorded) 84 -25.7%
OpenTelemetry Concept opentelemetry otel open telemetry 1,439 (1,037 recorded) 612 (441 recorded) 42 +43.8%
Secrets Management Concept secrets management secret management vault +1 more 1,284 (925 recorded) 401 (289 recorded) 78 +67.0%
OpenClaw Concept openclaw clawdbot moltbot +2 more 981 (707 recorded) 230 (166 recorded) 61 --
Serverless Concept serverless lambda functions as a service +1 more 744 (536 recorded) 398 (287 recorded) 64 -28.6%
Developer Experience Concept developer experience dx devx +1 more 704 (507 recorded) 538 (388 recorded) 80 -10.8%
Multi-agent systems Concept multi-agent distributed agents distributed agent systems +4 more 633 (456 recorded) 376 (271 recorded) 69 +37.3%
Platform Engineering Concept platform engineering internal developer platform idp +1 more 423 (305 recorded) 308 (222 recorded) 60 +10.7%
AI Guardrails Concept ai guardrails ai safety responsible ai +6 more 393 (283 recorded) 380 (274 recorded) 54 +50.6%
AI Model Fine-tuning Concept fine-tuning fine tuning finetuning +4 more 330 (238 recorded) 229 (165 recorded) 49 -17.7%
Data Pipeline Concept data pipeline etl elt +2 more 278 (200 recorded) 198 (143 recorded) 55 -47.8%
Local AI Concept local ai models on-device ai private ai +6 more 255 (184 recorded) 154 (111 recorded) 26 +129.7%
Reinforcement learning Concept reinforcement learning reward-based learning rlhf +3 more 180 (130 recorded) 114 (82 recorded) 27 +44.0%
Harness engineering Concept harness engineering agent harness engineering agent behavior +5 more 157 (113 recorded) 111 (80 recorded) 42 +647.6%
Subagents Concept subagents agent delegation agent fan-out +3 more 148 (107 recorded) 96 (69 recorded) 26 +543.5%
Zero Trust Concept zero trust zero-trust ztna 143 (103 recorded) 96 (69 recorded) 26 -0.7%
Loop engineering Concept agent loops agentic loops loop engineering +4 more 129 (93 recorded) 62 (45 recorded) 26 +1333.3%
TPUs Concept tensor processing unit tpu tpus +3 more 71 (51 recorded) 21 (15 recorded) 4 -12.3%
WebMCP Concept WebMCP 65 (47 recorded) 14 (10 recorded) 8 --
Cloud agents Concept cloud agents server-side agents managed ai agents +4 more 64 (46 recorded) 46 (33 recorded) 17 +966.7%
Cost per task Concept cost per task cost per successful task intelligence per dollar +5 more 44 (32 recorded) 33 (24 recorded) 15 --
Edge Computing Concept edge computing edge function edge runtime +1 more 28 (20 recorded) 26 (19 recorded) 11 -61.6%
Agent Plugins Concept agent plugins specification agent plugins v1 agent plugins 1.0 +5 more 21 (15 recorded) 4 (3 recorded) 3 --
Gemini 3.7 Flash Implementation LLM gemini 3.7 flash 3.7 flash 11 (8 recorded) 3 (2 recorded) 2 --
MLX Concept mlx mlx framework apple silicon ml +2 more 10 (7 recorded) 7 (5 recorded) 2 +11.1%
Agent sandbox Concept ai agent sandbox sandboxed agent runtime agent container +6 more 8 (6 recorded) 6 (4 recorded) 3 +100.0%
Token engineering Concept tokenbudgeting token cost optimization token spend control +3 more 8 (6 recorded) 8 (6 recorded) 4 --
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 1 (1 recorded) 1 (1 recorded) 1 --
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