--- title: "AI agents — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # AI agents (💡 Concepts) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › AI agents AI agents is 🔥 Hot on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 47 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 18 points higher than 7 days before. It has been in hype for 20 days, since Sep 8, and peaked at 64 on Sep 21. AI agents: systems that carry out tasks on their own (coding, browser, personal assistants). This is the umbrella topic and the share-of-voice baseline. First seen on HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) · Sep 6 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the run-up to this hype episode. Why this stage: in hype for 20 days; 47 vs peak 64 on Sep 21. - **Stage:** 🔥 Hot — in hype and holding up - **Hype score:** 47.1 / 100 · +7.7 in 1 day · +18.1 in 7 days - **In hype since:** Sep 8, 2026 (20 days) - **Peak, 30 days:** 64.3 on Sep 21, 2026 - **Category:** 💡 Concepts - **Sources above normal:** 4 of 25 scoring it (4 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 4,113 - **Share of voice:** 7.2% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 118 (Sep 26) | 69 | 1.7× | yes | 31% | | HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) | frontpage hours | 28.1 | 5.3 | 4.6× | yes | 26% | | Wikipedia | pageviews | 1,047 | 763 | 1.4× | yes | 21% | | Bluesky | trending | 0.6 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | yes | 19% | | Luma (SF AI events) | events | 91 (Sep 26) | 86 | 1.1× | no | 2% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | items | 14 | 12.5 | 1.1× | no | 0.4% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 2 | 0.8 | 1.7× | no | 0.1% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [bojieli/ai-agent-book: 《深入理解 AI Agent：设计原理与工程实践》（李博杰 著）开源主仓库：全书正文、编译版 PDF 与按章配套代码](https://github.com/bojieli/ai-agent-book) — GitHub Trending (bojieli) · score 50,913 2. [The most useless form of news is “CEO says.” Can this tool actually do what it says or is the company just trying to profit off fear?](https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3mwliwewecs2y) — Bluesky · Sep 28 · score 2,625 · 108 comments 3. [My Fiance is Convinced AI will likely cause a Catastrophic or Extinction-Type Event in the Next Few Years - How Justified Are His Fears?](https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1wosn95/) — Reddit (r/artificial) · Sep 24 · score 252 · 843 comments 4. [Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849985) — Hacker News (swarmtraces.org) · Sep 25 · score 746 · 467 comments 5. [dzhng/jevgrep: Find code by asking what it does. A CLI for coding agents that uses Jev to discover relevant files and source context.](https://github.com/dzhng/jevgrep) — GitHub (dzhng) · Sep 26 · score 1,338 6. [Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823582) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (qualcomm.com) · Sep 23 · score 603 · 263 comments 7. [Agentic Engineering & Multi-Agent Systems: Talks + AI Agent Workshops, Ft Snowflake & Cognee](https://luma.com/sep-ai-forum) — Luma (SF AI events) (TechEquity Ai - Silicon Valley) · score 867 8. [Over the weekend, a person armed with a coding agent opened \*\*479\*\* pull requests against the Password Manager Resources project. As open source maintainers, what are we supposed to do about this? Al…](https://hachyderm.io/@rmondello/117349233726358453) — Mastodon (fediverse) (hachyderm.io) · Sep 28 · score 129 · 22 comments 9. [Claude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/claude-opus-55-should-raise-your) — AI newsletters (RSS) (Zvi) · Sep 26 · score 118 · 27 comments 10. [Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, with OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for Nvidia DPUs](https://www.techmeme.com/260928/p7#a260928p7) — Techmeme (CNBC) · Sep 28 · score 38 · 64 comments 11. [Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection \(and We're Not Ready\)](https://dev.to/james_anderson_h/prompt-injection-is-the-new-sql-injection-and-were-not-ready-4ea4) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 27 · score 45 · 39 comments 12. [VideoGen-Agent: Reinforcing Video Generation Agents](https://huggingface.co/papers/2609.24997) — Hugging Face Daily Papers (hf-papers) · Sep 22 · score 71 · 3 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 3,911 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 45% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 27% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 24% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 20% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 18% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 11% of its stories Payment rails its stories name: - [Stablecoins / crypto](https://abovethefog.app/themes/stablecoins_crypto.md) — 41 stories - [x402](https://abovethefog.app/themes/x402.md) — 34 stories - [PSPs & fintechs](https://abovethefog.app/themes/psp_fintech.md) — 26 stories - [Card networks](https://abovethefog.app/themes/card_networks.md) — 14 stories - [AP2](https://abovethefog.app/themes/ap2.md) — 2 stories - [ACP](https://abovethefog.app/themes/acp.md) — 2 stories ## Related topics - **Related to:** [Recursive self-improvement](https://abovethefog.app/topics/recursive_self_improvement.md) - **Mentioned with:** [x402](https://abovethefog.app/topics/x402.md) (86 stories), [Meta Superintelligence Labs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_msl.md) (85 stories), [LangGraph](https://abovethefog.app/topics/langgraph.md) (71 stories), [LangChain](https://abovethefog.app/topics/langchain.md) (51 stories), [AGENTS.md](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agents_md.md) (50 stories), [SF AI hackathons and events](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_hackathons.md) (25 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 47.1 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 26, 2026 | 39.5 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 25, 2026 | 40.9 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 24, 2026 | 62 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 23, 2026 | 49.9 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 22, 2026 | 60.3 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 21, 2026 | 64.3 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 20, 2026 | 29.1 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 19, 2026 | 27.1 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 18, 2026 | 46.7 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 17, 2026 | 63.9 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 16, 2026 | 36.2 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 15, 2026 | 41 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 14, 2026 | 26.5 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 13, 2026 | 29.5 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 12, 2026 | 29.1 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 11, 2026 | 21.5 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 10, 2026 | 31.8 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 9, 2026 | 43.3 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 8, 2026 | 28.8 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 7, 2026 | 4.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 9.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 2.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 26.2 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 3, 2026 | 8.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 23.8 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 1, 2026 | 24.2 | 🧊 Cooling | | Aug 31, 2026 | 28.9 | 🚀 Rising | | Aug 30, 2026 | 3.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 3.3 | 💤 Quiet | [Open AI agents in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=ai_agents) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)