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Top Gainers

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
Cost per task 42 (31 recorded) +4100.0%
Cloud agents 70 (52 recorded) +1650.0%
MLX 27 (20 recorded) +800.0%
Loop engineering 35 (26 recorded) +600.0%
Subagents 95 (71 recorded) +400.0%

Top Declines

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
RAG 731 (545 recorded) -61.8%
Edge Computing 11 (8 recorded) -56.0%
Data Pipeline 153 (114 recorded) -42.9%
LLM 1,589 (1,184 recorded) -38.3%
Developer Experience 154 (115 recorded) -36.4%

All Tracked Topics

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Topic Keywords Mentions Posts Companies Forecast YoY Change
AI Agents Concept ai agent ai agents agentic ai +2 more 3,832 (2,856 recorded) 3,400 (2,534 recorded) 266 +32.2%
MCP Concept mcp model context protocol 2,528 (1,884 recorded) 1,850 (1,379 recorded) 219 -9.2%
Real-time Concept real-time realtime real time +2 more 2,276 (1,696 recorded) 2,366 (1,763 recorded) 223 -23.4%
LLM Concept llm large language model llms +1 more 1,589 (1,184 recorded) 1,355 (1,010 recorded) 188 -38.3%
Observability Concept observability o11y tracing +1 more 1,204 (897 recorded) 1,076 (802 recorded) 119 -2.9%
Vector Search Concept vector search vector database vector db +3 more 1,100 (820 recorded) 866 (645 recorded) 85 +13.9%
Voice AI Concept voice ai voice agent voice agents +7 more 912 (680 recorded) 696 (519 recorded) 68 +35.7%
RAG Concept rag retrieval augmented generation retrieval-augmented 731 (545 recorded) 533 (397 recorded) 82 -61.8%
AI Coding Assistant Concept copilot ai coding code assistant +2 more 586 (437 recorded) 722 (538 recorded) 128 +54.2%
OpenClaw Concept openclaw clawdbot moltbot +2 more 515 (384 recorded) 390 (291 recorded) 82 --
Kubernetes Concept kubernetes k8s k8 +1 more 372 (277 recorded) 314 (234 recorded) 72 -23.5%
Serverless Concept serverless lambda functions as a service +1 more 350 (261 recorded) 361 (269 recorded) 53 -27.2%
Secrets Management Concept secrets management secret management vault +1 more 341 (254 recorded) 331 (247 recorded) 68 +31.7%
Multi-agent systems Concept multi-agent distributed agents distributed agent systems +4 more 293 (218 recorded) 268 (200 recorded) 66 -8.7%
OpenTelemetry Concept opentelemetry otel open telemetry 263 (196 recorded) 211 (157 recorded) 33 -7.7%
AI Model Fine-tuning Concept fine-tuning fine tuning finetuning +4 more 192 (143 recorded) 160 (119 recorded) 44 -14.3%
Developer Experience Concept developer experience dx devx +1 more 154 (115 recorded) 140 (104 recorded) 57 -36.4%
Data Pipeline Concept data pipeline etl elt +2 more 153 (114 recorded) 141 (105 recorded) 45 -42.9%
AI Guardrails Concept ai guardrails ai safety responsible ai +6 more 130 (97 recorded) 119 (89 recorded) 38 +11.1%
Platform Engineering Concept platform engineering internal developer platform idp +1 more 95 (71 recorded) 91 (68 recorded) 40 -15.2%
Subagents Concept subagents agent delegation agent fan-out +3 more 95 (71 recorded) 81 (60 recorded) 36 +400.0%
Zero Trust Concept zero trust zero-trust ztna 91 (68 recorded) 82 (61 recorded) 17 +18.2%
TPUs Concept tensor processing unit tpu tpus +3 more 83 (62 recorded) 51 (38 recorded) 8 +176.7%
Harness engineering Concept harness engineering agent harness engineering agent behavior +5 more 71 (53 recorded) 68 (51 recorded) 29 +121.9%
Cloud agents Concept cloud agents server-side agents managed ai agents +4 more 70 (52 recorded) 63 (47 recorded) 14 +1650.0%
Local AI Concept local ai models on-device ai private ai +6 more 56 (42 recorded) 55 (41 recorded) 19 +51.4%
WebMCP Concept WebMCP 56 (42 recorded) 47 (35 recorded) 16 --
Cost per task Concept cost per task cost per successful task intelligence per dollar +5 more 42 (31 recorded) 42 (31 recorded) 18 +4100.0%
Loop engineering Concept agent loops agentic loops loop engineering +4 more 35 (26 recorded) 31 (23 recorded) 19 +600.0%
Reinforcement learning Concept reinforcement learning reward-based learning rlhf +3 more 32 (24 recorded) 32 (24 recorded) 15 -23.8%
MLX Concept mlx mlx framework apple silicon ml +2 more 27 (20 recorded) 20 (15 recorded) 6 +800.0%
Agent Plugins Concept agent plugins specification agent plugins v1 agent plugins 1.0 +5 more 23 (17 recorded) 13 (10 recorded) 8 --
Web search for AI agents Concept web search for ai agents ai search api agentic retrieval +8 more 17 (13 recorded) 17 (13 recorded) 9 +70.0%
Agent sandbox Concept ai agent sandbox sandboxed agent runtime agent container +6 more 12 (9 recorded) 12 (9 recorded) 4 +300.0%
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 Concept ai coding subscription llm coding pricing ai coding agent pricing +8 more 1 (1 recorded) 1 (1 recorded) 1 --
Domain-specific model Concept domain-specific model narrow-domain model domain-specific language model +7 more 0 (0 recorded) 0 (0 recorded) 0 --
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