{
  "notice": "Please credit \"Is software solved?\" and the sources listed in credits when you reuse these numbers. They are our own aggregates. For original records, go to each source.",
  "id": "sentiment",
  "name": "Developer sentiment",
  "question": "Do developers think software is solved?",
  "metric": "Sampled Hacker News comments and Bluesky posts taking a side that say it is getting solved, last 12 months",
  "solvedIf": "Most developers who take a side say it is",
  "value": "7%",
  "trend": [
    {
      "label": "2024-10",
      "value": 9
    },
    {
      "label": "2024-11",
      "value": 17
    },
    {
      "label": "2024-12",
      "value": 16
    },
    {
      "label": "2025-01",
      "value": 17
    },
    {
      "label": "2025-02",
      "value": 10
    },
    {
      "label": "2025-03",
      "value": 0
    },
    {
      "label": "2025-04",
      "value": 3
    },
    {
      "label": "2025-05",
      "value": 11
    },
    {
      "label": "2025-06",
      "value": 17
    },
    {
      "label": "2025-07",
      "value": 3
    },
    {
      "label": "2025-08",
      "value": 7
    },
    {
      "label": "2025-09",
      "value": 0
    },
    {
      "label": "2025-10",
      "value": 11
    },
    {
      "label": "2025-11",
      "value": 4
    },
    {
      "label": "2025-12",
      "value": 3
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-01",
      "value": 3
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-02",
      "value": 11
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-03",
      "value": 8
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-04",
      "value": 3
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-05",
      "value": 6
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-06",
      "value": 15
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-07",
      "value": 9
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-08",
      "value": 9
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-09",
      "value": 9
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-10",
      "value": 13
    }
  ],
  "trendLabel": "Share of sampled posts taking a side that say software is getting solved, per month, averaged across Hacker News and Bluesky. Each month rests on few posts, so expect noise.",
  "score": 7,
  "scoreReason": "7% of sampled Hacker News and Bluesky posts taking a side say it is getting solved.",
  "analysis": {
    "title": "Two communities",
    "intro": "Both samples are small, and most posts take no clear side, so read these as rough readings.",
    "points": [
      "Hacker News: 7% say it is getting solved, 13 comments against 162.",
      "Bluesky: 7% say it is getting solved, 13 posts against 176.",
      "In the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 84% use or plan to use AI tools, but more developers distrust their accuracy (46%) than trust it (33%). This does not affect the score."
    ]
  },
  "status": "Skeptical",
  "rule": "Skeptical when under half of the sampled comments taking a side say software is getting solved.",
  "direction": "away",
  "checks": [
    {
      "date": "2026-11-02",
      "value": "7%",
      "status": "Skeptical"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-01",
      "value": "7%",
      "status": "Skeptical"
    }
  ],
  "url": "/signals/sentiment",
  "api": "/api/signals/sentiment.json",
  "credits": [
    {
      "name": "Bluesky",
      "url": "https://bsky.app/",
      "signal": "sentiment",
      "license": "No data license published",
      "credit": "Totals derived from public posts on Bluesky through its public API. Posts belong to their authors and are not stored."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hacker News",
      "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring",
      "signal": "sentiment",
      "license": "No data license published",
      "credit": "Counts derived from the Hacker News API and the Algolia HN Search API, Y Combinator. Comments belong to their authors and are not stored."
    },
    {
      "name": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey",
      "url": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai",
      "signal": "sentiment",
      "license": "ODbL 1.0",
      "credit": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025, survey.stackoverflow.co. Survey data licensed under ODbL 1.0."
    }
  ]
}