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 ho…

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…

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.

[image] https://gist.github.com/jkrumbiegel/b6b7628a51b025dbfa74dbff9b293a7b new_packages_over_time.jl using Pkg Pkg.activate(; temp = true) Pkg.add(["DataFrames", "CairoMakie", "AlgebraOfGraphics"]) Pkg.add(url = "https://github.com/JuliaEcosystem/RegistryActivity.jl") using Registr…

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.

Yeah I was also surprised by that.

I’m less interested in the impact on package registrations, and much more interested to see the impact (read damage) of these agents on the overall usage of our forums. Maybe it’s just me, but I think our Slack, Zulip, and to a lesser extent Discourse feel like shells of their previous selves compa…

I wouldn’t say shells, but there’s definitely less asking about “how do I do this in Makie” which I assume is in part due to agents

The downturn could be concerning if it were tied to lower overall usage, but another plausible explanation is just that by 2021 there were enough packages that users could find what they need in the registry rather than create one on their own. So maybe its just a signal that the registry reached a …

[image] mihalybaci: The downturn could be concerning if it were tied to lower overall usage, but another plausible explanation is just that by 2021 there were enough packages that users could find what they need in the registry rather than create one on their own. So maybe its just a signal that…

For “package activity”, new non-patch releases in the registry might be another interesting metric.

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nilshg June 25, 2026, 9:23am 19

This is getting a little OT, but here are some stats:

Will there be any need for this forum? (It is not about this forum. Read on.)

Topic		Replies	Views
Getting the best out of AI without endangering the community Community	77	4164	August 22, 2026
Anthropic gave me 6 months of Claude Max for my contributions to the Julia ecosystem :) Offtopic ai	73	3627	August 12, 2026
What about a service that tracks every new registered package? Community proposal	39	3526	February 7, 2017
I don’t want to read LLM output Meta Discussion	151	4396	September 23, 2026
Some Julia growth/usage stats Community	42	14016	July 13, 2025

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