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title: "AI Buzzword Leaderboard"
collection: "Downtime"
source: https://aaif.live/resources/downtime/ai-buzzword-leaderboard
updated: 2026-08-29T18:36:52.198528+00:00
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# AI Buzzword Leaderboard

The phrases the community hears most in AI right now.

*Part of [Downtime](https://aaif.live/resources/downtime) — Agentic AI Foundation*

## Leaderboard

32 distinct phrases · updated 29 Aug 2026

🥇
Loop Engineering18%

🥈
Harness15%

🥉
Agent12%

4
Agentic8%

5
ADLC2%

6
Agentic-Human Collaboration2%

7
AI Governance2%

8
AI Security2%

9
Autonomous2%

10
Bubble2%

11
Constraints2%

12
Copilot2%

13
Cowork2%

14
Denial Of Wallet2%

15
Edge Of Chaos2%

16
External Agents2%

17
Fable2%

18
Feature Ablation2%

19
Frontier Models2%

20
Game Changer2%

21
Govern By Design2%

22
Hallucination2%

23
Incompetence2%

24
Load-Bearing2%

25
MCP2%

26
Multi-Agent2%

27
Observability2%

28
Ontologies2%

29
Pipe-Dream2%

30
Skill.md2%

31
Slop2%

32
Spec As Source2%

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Source: https://aaif.live/resources/downtime/ai-buzzword-leaderboard