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Top Gainers

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
Cost per task 55 (48 recorded) +5400.0%
Cloud agents 84 (73 recorded) +1580.0%
Agent sandbox 33 (29 recorded) +1000.0%
MLX 30 (26 recorded) +900.0%
Loop engineering 52 (45 recorded) +766.7%

Top Declines

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
RAG 715 (621 recorded) -64.5%
Edge Computing 14 (12 recorded) -48.1%
LLM 1,661 (1,443 recorded) -38.4%
Developer Experience 158 (137 recorded) -35.5%
Data Pipeline 177 (154 recorded) -34.4%

All Tracked Topics

Filter Data
Topic Keywords Mentions Posts Companies Forecast YoY Change
AI Agents Concept ai agent ai agents agentic ai +2 more 4,173 (3,624 recorded) 4,265 (3,704 recorded) 304 +32.8%
MCP Concept mcp model context protocol 2,915 (2,532 recorded) 2,202 (1,912 recorded) 251 -2.9%
Real-time Concept real-time realtime real time +2 more 2,391 (2,077 recorded) 2,602 (2,260 recorded) 245 -21.7%
LLM Concept llm large language model llms +1 more 1,661 (1,443 recorded) 1,501 (1,304 recorded) 209 -38.4%
Observability Concept observability o11y tracing +1 more 1,352 (1,174 recorded) 1,241 (1,078 recorded) 131 +7.4%
Voice AI Concept voice ai voice agent voice agents +7 more 1,234 (1,072 recorded) 905 (786 recorded) 81 +74.8%
Vector Search Concept vector search vector database vector db +3 more 1,183 (1,027 recorded) 925 (803 recorded) 99 +19.5%
RAG Concept rag retrieval augmented generation retrieval-augmented 715 (621 recorded) 534 (464 recorded) 91 -64.5%
AI Coding Assistant Concept copilot ai coding code assistant +2 more 668 (580 recorded) 803 (697 recorded) 149 +53.6%
OpenClaw Concept openclaw clawdbot moltbot +2 more 550 (478 recorded) 429 (373 recorded) 88 --
Serverless Concept serverless lambda functions as a service +1 more 461 (400 recorded) 465 (404 recorded) 62 -7.2%
Secrets Management Concept secrets management secret management vault +1 more 451 (392 recorded) 428 (372 recorded) 86 +72.8%
Kubernetes Concept kubernetes k8s k8 +1 more 447 (388 recorded) 502 (436 recorded) 88 -13.2%
OpenTelemetry Concept opentelemetry otel open telemetry 291 (253 recorded) 235 (204 recorded) 40 +2.1%
Multi-agent systems Concept multi-agent distributed agents distributed agent systems +4 more 284 (247 recorded) 327 (284 recorded) 73 -33.3%
AI Model Fine-tuning Concept fine-tuning fine tuning finetuning +4 more 208 (181 recorded) 174 (151 recorded) 48 -11.5%
Data Pipeline Concept data pipeline etl elt +2 more 177 (154 recorded) 166 (144 recorded) 55 -34.4%
Developer Experience Concept developer experience dx devx +1 more 158 (137 recorded) 145 (126 recorded) 67 -35.5%
TPUs Concept tensor processing unit tpu tpus +3 more 157 (136 recorded) 91 (79 recorded) 9 +201.9%
Agent Context Engineering Concept agent context context engineering agent context engineering +2 more 145 (126 recorded) 124 (108 recorded) 41 -6.5%
AI Guardrails Concept ai guardrails ai safety responsible ai +6 more 143 (124 recorded) 132 (115 recorded) 46 +17.2%
Platform Engineering Concept platform engineering internal developer platform idp +1 more 130 (113 recorded) 120 (104 recorded) 51 +9.2%
Subagents Concept subagents agent delegation agent fan-out +3 more 130 (113 recorded) 112 (97 recorded) 43 +550.0%
Harness engineering Concept harness engineering agent harness engineering agent behavior +5 more 85 (74 recorded) 83 (72 recorded) 36 +150.0%
Zero Trust Concept zero trust zero-trust ztna 85 (74 recorded) 77 (67 recorded) 19 +10.4%
Cloud agents Concept cloud agents server-side agents managed ai agents +4 more 84 (73 recorded) 78 (68 recorded) 21 +1580.0%
Agent Evaluations Concept agent evals agent evaluation trajectory evals +2 more 70 (61 recorded) 69 (60 recorded) 26 +52.2%
WebMCP Concept WebMCP 56 (49 recorded) 48 (42 recorded) 18 --
Cost per task Concept cost per task cost per successful task intelligence per dollar +5 more 55 (48 recorded) 55 (48 recorded) 28 +5400.0%
Local AI Concept local ai models on-device ai private ai +6 more 53 (46 recorded) 52 (45 recorded) 22 +20.5%
Reinforcement learning Concept reinforcement learning reward-based learning rlhf +3 more 53 (46 recorded) 52 (45 recorded) 19 +17.8%
Loop engineering Concept agent loops agentic loops loop engineering +4 more 52 (45 recorded) 46 (40 recorded) 23 +766.7%
Agent sandbox Concept ai agent sandbox sandboxed agent runtime agent container +6 more 33 (29 recorded) 31 (27 recorded) 7 +1000.0%
Agent Plugins Concept agent plugins specification agent plugins v1 agent plugins 1.0 +5 more 30 (26 recorded) 17 (15 recorded) 9 --
MLX Concept mlx mlx framework apple silicon ml +2 more 30 (26 recorded) 23 (20 recorded) 10 +900.0%
Web search for AI agents Concept web search for ai agents ai search api agentic retrieval +8 more 22 (19 recorded) 22 (19 recorded) 10 +120.0%
Edge Computing Concept edge computing edge function edge runtime +1 more 14 (12 recorded) 14 (12 recorded) 8 -48.1%
AI Coding Agent Pricing Concept ai coding subscription llm coding pricing ai coding agent pricing +8 more 3 (3 recorded) 3 (3 recorded) 2 --
Token engineering Concept tokenbudgeting token cost optimization token spend control +3 more 2 (2 recorded) 2 (2 recorded) 2 --
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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