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Control tags (non-AI)

These tags are not about AI. They are a control, and they fall too, so fashion in one ecosystem cannot explain the decline.

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AI tags — LLM wave

Stack Overflow creates a tag some months after the tool it names. In a tag's first year, part of the rise comes from people who learn the tag.

AI tags — ML wave

AI tags — vendor (noise-level)

These tags peak at 1–9 questions a month. The flat line is the result; the small moves are random.

Network-wide

These lines add up 19 sites, about 85% of the network outside Stack Overflow. The API gives no total, so the true total is higher.

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