I was interested in whether agentic coding had a noticeable effect on announcements already, at least I felt that a bunch of stuff was being introduced. I had claude extract posts with ANN in their title (could be other announcements or versions I guess, but it’s ok as an approximation) and count how many of these were there per month. Looks like it’s trending upwards now, although there was an earlier peak which seems to coincide with the pandemic.
Interesting! Can you share the code for that figure? 
Seems too early to draw any conclusions. The data itself mostly looks like a random point cloud to me, with perhaps a dip at the start of 2025. Aren’t there any seasonal effects that are unaccounted for now?
Yeah it’s still early, I thought it would be more pronounced. But I guess it was only the last couple months I noticed this so we’ll see
Tracking the “new package registrations” would show more of a trend, I think. Some registrations don’t get merged (perhaps because they’re ‘agent’-powered?), and not all merged packages see an ANNouncement anyway.
Agreed. If someone wants to play with it, the (unregistered) package RegistryActivity.jl allows you to do this kind of analysis. The function RegistryActivity.registry_activity is allow you need. A long time ago I posted on Zulip some charts made with this tool in the topic #general > Evidence of Julia’s growth
That makes a lot of sense, although I think a bunch of generated packages are not necessarily being registered, perhaps because the authors feel like they’ve vibe coded them too much.
I suppose the agentic coding bump is a positive thing, but the downward trend in new package registrations from 2021 to 2025 is a little concerning.