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The first weekly snapshot of AI saturation across three monitored streams of technical discourse.

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What Pulse measures

Three streams of technical discourse:

The headline number is IMS_ecosystem, a calibrated estimate of the proportion of synthetic content across all three streams combined. Reported with 95% confidence intervals from bootstrap resampling.

Streams are deliberately scoped to apolitical technical discussion. Twitter, Threads, and Bluesky are not included in v1.0. The methodology page documents these exclusions.

Read the methodology
StreamSample

Hacker News

Comments

n=250

Reddit

Seven curated subreddits

n=250

Tech blogs

Fifty curated sources

n=250
Weekly total750

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