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Top Gainers

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
Loop engineering 120 (95 recorded) +1233.3%
Cloud agents 78 (62 recorded) +1200.0%
Harness engineering 174 (138 recorded) +690.9%
Subagents 142 (113 recorded) +517.4%
Agent sandbox 11 (9 recorded) +175.0%

Top Declines

2026 (projected)
Topic Mentions Forecast YoY Change
Edge Computing 29 (23 recorded) -60.8%
Data Pipeline 273 (217 recorded) -48.8%
Serverless 733 (582 recorded) -29.7%
RAG 1,400 (1,112 recorded) -28.1%
TPUs 64 (51 recorded) -21.0%

All Tracked Topics

Filter Data
Topic Keywords Mentions Posts Companies Forecast YoY Change
AI Agents Concept ai agent ai agents agentic ai +2 more 9,796 (7,783 recorded) 4,681 (3,719 recorded) 274 +77.9%
MCP Concept mcp model context protocol 7,751 (6,158 recorded) 2,347 (1,865 recorded) 226 +12.5%
Observability Concept observability o11y tracing +1 more 5,442 (4,324 recorded) 2,547 (2,024 recorded) 153 +61.7%
LLM Concept llm large language model llms +1 more 4,951 (3,934 recorded) 2,673 (2,124 recorded) 233 +12.5%
Real-time Concept real-time realtime real time +2 more 4,111 (3,266 recorded) 2,486 (1,975 recorded) 224 -20.2%
AI Coding Assistant Concept copilot ai coding code assistant +2 more 3,136 (2,492 recorded) 1,766 (1,403 recorded) 168 +111.9%
Voice AI Concept voice ai voice agent voice agents +7 more 2,418 (1,921 recorded) 749 (595 recorded) 65 +44.0%
Vector Search Concept vector search vector database vector db +3 more 1,963 (1,560 recorded) 896 (712 recorded) 95 -17.1%
Kubernetes Concept kubernetes k8s k8 +1 more 1,928 (1,532 recorded) 1,089 (865 recorded) 96 -12.2%
OpenTelemetry Concept opentelemetry otel open telemetry 1,505 (1,196 recorded) 636 (505 recorded) 44 +50.5%
RAG Concept rag retrieval augmented generation retrieval-augmented 1,400 (1,112 recorded) 644 (512 recorded) 90 -28.1%
Secrets Management Concept secrets management secret management vault +1 more 1,325 (1,053 recorded) 414 (329 recorded) 89 +71.6%
OpenClaw Concept openclaw clawdbot moltbot +2 more 907 (721 recorded) 216 (172 recorded) 64 --
Developer Experience Concept developer experience dx devx +1 more 761 (605 recorded) 553 (439 recorded) 83 -5.3%
Serverless Concept serverless lambda functions as a service +1 more 733 (582 recorded) 391 (311 recorded) 67 -29.7%
Multi-agent systems Concept multi-agent distributed agents distributed agent systems +4 more 597 (474 recorded) 356 (283 recorded) 72 +29.2%
Platform Engineering Concept platform engineering internal developer platform idp +1 more 453 (360 recorded) 344 (273 recorded) 63 +17.4%
AI Guardrails Concept ai guardrails ai safety responsible ai +6 more 437 (347 recorded) 413 (328 recorded) 58 +64.9%
AI Model Fine-tuning Concept fine-tuning fine tuning finetuning +4 more 352 (280 recorded) 238 (189 recorded) 53 -12.7%
Data Pipeline Concept data pipeline etl elt +2 more 273 (217 recorded) 194 (154 recorded) 60 -48.8%
Local AI Concept local ai models on-device ai private ai +6 more 248 (197 recorded) 155 (123 recorded) 30 +121.4%
Reinforcement learning Concept reinforcement learning reward-based learning rlhf +3 more 180 (143 recorded) 117 (93 recorded) 34 +44.0%
Harness engineering Concept harness engineering agent harness engineering agent behavior +5 more 174 (138 recorded) 126 (100 recorded) 43 +690.9%
Zero Trust Concept zero trust zero-trust ztna 165 (131 recorded) 94 (75 recorded) 28 +14.6%
Subagents Concept subagents agent delegation agent fan-out +3 more 142 (113 recorded) 96 (76 recorded) 27 +517.4%
Loop engineering Concept agent loops agentic loops loop engineering +4 more 120 (95 recorded) 59 (47 recorded) 26 +1233.3%
Cloud agents Concept cloud agents server-side agents managed ai agents +4 more 78 (62 recorded) 54 (43 recorded) 19 +1200.0%
TPUs Concept tensor processing unit tpu tpus +3 more 64 (51 recorded) 19 (15 recorded) 4 -21.0%
WebMCP Concept WebMCP 60 (48 recorded) 14 (11 recorded) 8 --
Cost per task Concept cost per task cost per successful task intelligence per dollar +5 more 40 (32 recorded) 30 (24 recorded) 15 --
Edge Computing Concept edge computing edge function edge runtime +1 more 29 (23 recorded) 28 (22 recorded) 13 -60.8%
MLX Concept mlx mlx framework apple silicon ml +2 more 21 (17 recorded) 11 (9 recorded) 3 +133.3%
Agent Plugins Concept agent plugins specification agent plugins v1 agent plugins 1.0 +5 more 19 (15 recorded) 4 (3 recorded) 3 --
Web search for AI agents Concept web search for ai agents ai search api agentic retrieval +8 more 19 (15 recorded) 13 (10 recorded) 6 +137.5%
Agent sandbox Concept ai agent sandbox sandboxed agent runtime agent container +6 more 11 (9 recorded) 9 (7 recorded) 5 +175.0%
Token engineering Concept tokenbudgeting token cost optimization token spend control +3 more 8 (6 recorded) 8 (6 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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