SubTrends

Averages 8 posts/day, top 25% activity. Most active Tuesdays around 10 AM UTC. Mostly image posts.

Posts / Day Average posts per day this month. Arrow is change vs the prior calendar month.
8 5%
Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post this month (upvotes minus downvotes). Arrow is change vs the prior month.
8 14%
Avg Comments Mean number of comments per post this month. Arrow is change vs the prior month when that month’s data is available.
1 4%
Activity Rank #16,599 by posts/day among 90,883 tracked SFW subreddits as of Sep 2026 (Top 25%). Arrow is spots gained or lost vs the prior month.
#16,599 530
Top 25%
Posts w/ Links The percentage of posts that link off-site. This counts true link posts plus text posts with a URL in the body. Image and video posts are not counted.
40%
Low-Reply Rate Share of posts with 0 or 1 comment. A single comment is often an automated mod reply rather than real community discussion.
88%

r/AIDeveloperNews Traffic & Engagement

Volume and engagement over time

Posts/DayAvg Upvotes051015200102030Sep 1Sep 8Sep 15Sep 22Sep 29
Posts/Day Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post in this bucket.

Post Format

Top Post Type Image
Typical Title Length Medium (88 chars)
Peak Day Monday

Upvote Distribution

How upvoted posts perform Only posts with 2+ upvotes. The bands below show how those posts are spread by upvote count.

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65%
10–99
33%
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2%
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0%
Posts that get upvoted Share of posts that received at least one upvote (2+ net upvotes). Most posts at 1 upvote are excluded. 46%
Median upvoted post Median upvotes among posts that received upvotes. Differs from Avg Upvotes in the snapshot, which includes every post. 6
Top post Highest upvote count on a single post this month. 209

r/AIDeveloperNews Most Active Times

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Most Active by Day

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Mon 11 AM
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r/AIDeveloperNews Flair Performance

Upvotes and volume by flair

This subreddit doesn't use post flairs.

No flaired posts were found in this month's data.

Post Type Breakdown

Share by text, image, or link

55%image posts

r/AIDeveloperNews Trending Keywords

Ranked by how often they appear

KeywordMentions ▼UpvotesComments
open
67 (26.9%)
201
agents
37 (14.9%)
131
model
35 (14.1%)
111
agent
31 (12.4%)
222
coding
31 (12.4%)
131
source
31 (12.4%)
90
built
27 (10.8%)
41
code
23 (9.2%)
141
dropped
20 (8.0%)
273
agentic
18 (7.2%)
171

r/AIDeveloperNews Mentioned Domains

Most linked sites

Domain Links Upvotes
github.com81
youtube.com62
youtu.be51

r/AIDeveloperNews Top Posts

Highest-performing posts

Alibaba Qwen has open-sourced zvec-grep (zg): A local-first search infrastructure that extracts, organizes, and indexes local content (code & documentation)

209 upvotes 12 comments image Sep 3

Google just dropped Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Harnesses (RRSI): A framework that automatically evolves LLM agent harnesses (prompts, control flow, tools, and memory) without overfitting

158 upvotes 22 comments image Sep 28

Google has open-sourced AX: A declarative agentic orchestrator to sandbox agent tasks, wire up workspaces, fence networks, and run them at scale

76 upvotes 2 comments image Sep 21

Cloudflare just dropped cf: An open-source agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API

75 upvotes 6 comments image Sep 30

Alibaba AMAP has open-sourced LongHorizon-Harness: A loop engineering framework that allows AI coding agents to keep working across desktop apps and the terminal for hours

75 upvotes 2 comments image Sep 15

Google has open-sourced ARTEMIS: An AI Android automation agent that automates end-to-end workflows, captures logs, and connects to AI IDEs via MCP

72 upvotes 4 comments image Sep 11

Nvidia just released SoL-Pi: An open-source framework that uses auto-research loops to make AI coding agents more token-efficient

71 upvotes 0 comments image Sep 11

Meta just open-sourced Astryx: A fully customizable and agent-ready design system

62 upvotes 5 comments image Sep 16

Tencent just open-sourced WeKnora: An agentic RAG platform with sandboxed execution, auto-generated Wikis, and cross-session memory

61 upvotes 0 comments image Sep 14

Jina AI just dropped jina-ocr-v1: An open-weight 3.4B MoE (~570M active) document parser with built-in DeepEncoder and FastMTP speculative decoding

54 upvotes 6 comments image Sep 18

r/AIDeveloperNews Audience Overlap

Overlapping audiences

r/AIDeveloperNews FAQ

What's the best time to post on r/AIDeveloperNews?

Based on posting volume, r/AIDeveloperNews is most active on Tuesdays around 10 AM UTC. That window has the most community activity, but busier hours also mean more competition for attention.

How active is r/AIDeveloperNews?

r/AIDeveloperNews averages 8 posts per day and ranks in the top 25% for activity among tracked SFW subreddits.

How many upvotes do posts on r/AIDeveloperNews get?

Posts on r/AIDeveloperNews average about 8 upvotes this month (net score per post).

What kind of posts does r/AIDeveloperNews get most?

On r/AIDeveloperNews, posts are a mix of formats, mostly image posts