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Top Gainers

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
Cloud agents 89 (77 recorded) +1383.3%
Loop engineering 123 (107 recorded) +1266.7%
Harness engineering 180 (156 recorded) +718.2%
Subagents 147 (128 recorded) +539.1%
Agent sandbox 18 (16 recorded) +350.0%

Top Declines

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
Edge Computing 30 (26 recorded) -59.5%
Data Pipeline 279 (242 recorded) -47.3%
RAG 1,351 (1,173 recorded) -30.9%
Serverless 790 (686 recorded) -25.0%
Real-time 4,265 (3,704 recorded) -17.4%

All Tracked Topics

Filter Data
Topic Keywords Mentions Posts Companies Forecast YoY Change
AI Agents Concept ai agent ai agents agentic ai +2 more 10,898 (9,465 recorded) 5,157 (4,479 recorded) 283 +86.4%
MCP Concept mcp model context protocol 8,653 (7,515 recorded) 2,499 (2,170 recorded) 235 +25.4%
Observability Concept observability o11y tracing +1 more 5,672 (4,926 recorded) 2,653 (2,304 recorded) 162 +69.0%
LLM Concept llm large language model llms +1 more 5,112 (4,440 recorded) 2,774 (2,409 recorded) 245 +14.7%
Voice AI Concept voice ai voice agent voice agents +7 more 4,295 (3,730 recorded) 919 (798 recorded) 73 +110.6%
Real-time Concept real-time realtime real time +2 more 4,265 (3,704 recorded) 2,552 (2,216 recorded) 232 -17.4%
AI Coding Assistant Concept copilot ai coding code assistant +2 more 3,260 (2,831 recorded) 1,888 (1,640 recorded) 180 +117.6%
Vector Search Concept vector search vector database vector db +3 more 2,062 (1,791 recorded) 902 (783 recorded) 100 -13.2%
Kubernetes Concept kubernetes k8s k8 +1 more 1,916 (1,664 recorded) 1,126 (978 recorded) 101 -12.9%
OpenTelemetry Concept opentelemetry otel open telemetry 1,742 (1,513 recorded) 692 (601 recorded) 48 +73.7%
Secrets Management Concept secrets management secret management vault +1 more 1,408 (1,223 recorded) 444 (386 recorded) 98 +82.6%
RAG Concept rag retrieval augmented generation retrieval-augmented 1,351 (1,173 recorded) 631 (548 recorded) 93 -30.9%
OpenClaw Concept openclaw clawdbot moltbot +2 more 832 (723 recorded) 204 (177 recorded) 65 --
Serverless Concept serverless lambda functions as a service +1 more 790 (686 recorded) 409 (355 recorded) 68 -25.0%
Developer Experience Concept developer experience dx devx +1 more 766 (665 recorded) 557 (484 recorded) 91 -6.9%
Multi-agent systems Concept multi-agent distributed agents distributed agent systems +4 more 619 (538 recorded) 373 (324 recorded) 79 +28.7%
Platform Engineering Concept platform engineering internal developer platform idp +1 more 531 (461 recorded) 395 (343 recorded) 73 +30.1%
AI Guardrails Concept ai guardrails ai safety responsible ai +6 more 508 (441 recorded) 458 (398 recorded) 70 +87.5%
AI Model Fine-tuning Concept fine-tuning fine tuning finetuning +4 more 406 (353 recorded) 265 (230 recorded) 56 -6.7%
Agent Context Engineering Concept agent context context engineering agent context engineering +2 more 378 (328 recorded) 229 (199 recorded) 70 +136.2%
Agent Evaluations Concept agent evals agent evaluation trajectory evals +2 more 297 (258 recorded) 191 (166 recorded) 34 +102.0%
Data Pipeline Concept data pipeline etl elt +2 more 279 (242 recorded) 198 (172 recorded) 63 -47.3%
Local AI Concept local ai models on-device ai private ai +6 more 235 (204 recorded) 154 (134 recorded) 34 +109.8%
Reinforcement learning Concept reinforcement learning reward-based learning rlhf +3 more 210 (182 recorded) 138 (120 recorded) 36 +51.1%
Harness engineering Concept harness engineering agent harness engineering agent behavior +5 more 180 (156 recorded) 131 (114 recorded) 48 +718.2%
Zero Trust Concept zero trust zero-trust ztna 169 (147 recorded) 97 (84 recorded) 31 +17.4%
Subagents Concept subagents agent delegation agent fan-out +3 more 147 (128 recorded) 99 (86 recorded) 31 +539.1%
Loop engineering Concept agent loops agentic loops loop engineering +4 more 123 (107 recorded) 64 (56 recorded) 30 +1266.7%
TPUs Concept tensor processing unit tpu tpus +3 more 105 (91 recorded) 23 (20 recorded) 6 +29.6%
Cloud agents Concept cloud agents server-side agents managed ai agents +4 more 89 (77 recorded) 59 (51 recorded) 21 +1383.3%
WebMCP Concept WebMCP 56 (49 recorded) 14 (12 recorded) 8 --
Cost per task Concept cost per task cost per successful task intelligence per dollar +5 more 43 (37 recorded) 31 (27 recorded) 17 --
Edge Computing Concept edge computing edge function edge runtime +1 more 30 (26 recorded) 29 (25 recorded) 14 -59.5%
MLX Concept mlx mlx framework apple silicon ml +2 more 20 (17 recorded) 10 (9 recorded) 3 +122.2%
Agent sandbox Concept ai agent sandbox sandboxed agent runtime agent container +6 more 18 (16 recorded) 10 (9 recorded) 7 +350.0%
Agent Plugins Concept agent plugins specification agent plugins v1 agent plugins 1.0 +5 more 17 (15 recorded) 3 (3 recorded) 3 --
Web search for AI agents Concept web search for ai agents ai search api agentic retrieval +8 more 17 (15 recorded) 12 (10 recorded) 6 +112.5%
Token engineering Concept tokenbudgeting token cost optimization token spend control +3 more 8 (7 recorded) 8 (7 recorded) 4 --
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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