# Is software solved?

> A public index that tracks whether software is finished, using public data on jobs, AI use, revenue, security, bugs and outages.

Verdict: Not yet.
Solved score: 33%
Last updated: November 2, 2026

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## API
- [Everything](https://issoftwaresolved.com/api/index.json): verdict, score, questions, history, signals and credits
- [Signals](https://issoftwaresolved.com/api/signals.json): one file per signal at /api/signals/{id}.json
- [API docs](https://issoftwaresolved.com/api)

## Signals
- [Jobs](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/jobs): US software postings on Indeed (Feb 2020 = 100): 80.8 (+24% YoY). Recovering
- [Code activity](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/code-activity): Git pushes worldwide on GitHub, latest quarter: 408M (+95% YoY). Git pushes increased
- [Revenue](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/revenue): Annual revenue of 10 public software companies: $192B (+15% YoY). Still growing
- [Prices](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/prices): US producer price index for software publishers: 102.1 (+2% YoY). Rising
- [Security](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/security): Added to CISA's exploited list, last 12 months: 313 (+24% YoY). Getting worse
- [Major service outages](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/outages): Incidents at 12 software services, last 12 months: 1,679 (+18% YoY). More incidents
- [Bugs](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/bugs): New vulnerabilities published in the National Vulnerability Database, last 12 months: 98,371 (+109% YoY). More reported
- [Developer sentiment](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/sentiment): Sampled Hacker News comments and Bluesky posts taking a side that say it is getting solved, last 12 months: 7%. Skeptical
- [Agent tools](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/agent-tools): New public GitHub repos tagged mcp-server, latest full month: 7,639 (+1208% YoY). Expanding
- [AI company hiring](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/ai-company-jobs): Open software engineering roles at 11 AI companies, today: 464. Still hiring
- [AI token prices](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/token-prices): Median listed price per 1M tokens across AI models from their makers, with 3 input tokens per output token: $2.00 (-27% YoY). Getting cheaper
- [Product launches](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/product-launches): New products launched on Uneed, latest full month: 837 (+194% YoY). More launches
- [AI coding benchmarks](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/coding-benchmarks): Best score so far on SWE-bench Verified, the share of real GitHub issues resolved: 83% (+12% YoY). Improving
- [AI pull requests](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/agent-prs): Public GitHub pull requests clearly labelled as coming from coding agents, latest full month: 1.5M (+177% YoY). More agents
- [No-code revenue](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/no-code-revenue): Combined annual revenue of Wix and Shopify, latest full year: $13.5B (+27% YoY). Still growing
- [Stack Overflow questions](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/stack-overflow): Questions asked on Stack Overflow, latest full month: 1,046 (-80% YoY). Asking less
- [Output per tech worker](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/tech-output): US information sector real output per worker, Q4 2022 = 100: 151.2 (+14% YoY). More per worker
- [AI token usage](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/token-usage): Tokens used through OpenRouter, latest full month: 787T (+3423% YoY). Growing
- [Programming share of AI](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/programming-share): Share of OpenRouter tokens estimated to be programming, latest full month: 26% (-36% YoY). Falling
- [Coding agent tokens](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/coding-agents): Tokens used by the coding apps OpenRouter ranks, latest full month: 205T (+3179% YoY). Growing
- [Business software spending](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/software-spending): US private investment in software, adjusted for inflation, latest quarter, in billions of dollars a year: $986B (+13% YoY). Still rising
- [Information sector openings](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/tech-hiring): US information sector job openings, average over the last 12 months, in thousands: 94K (-26% YoY). Hiring less
- [New tech businesses](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/new-businesses): New US business applications in the information sector, latest full month: 13,806 (+49% YoY). More applications
- [What AI models say](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/model-opinions): Median answer from AI models asked to score it from 0% to 100%: 20%. Say not yet
- [Software outsourcing revenue](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/outsourcing): Combined annual revenue of Accenture, Cognizant, Infosys, EPAM and Globant, latest full year: $118B (+7% YoY). Still growing
- [AI-built sites](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/ai-built-sites): Crawled sites built on Lovable and Emergent, latest month: 6,768. Growing
- [Cost of a hard task](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/task-cost): AI usage cost per FrontierSWE task for a near-top score: $99
- [AI task length](https://issoftwaresolved.com/signals/task-length): Human working hours of tasks completed with 50% success: 17 hours

## Credits
- [GitHub pull request search](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/agent-prs): Public pull requests by coding agent, by month. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the GitHub search API.
- [AI company job boards](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/ai-company-jobs): Open software engineering roles at 11 AI companies. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from public job boards at OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, xAI, Cohere, Perplexity, Cursor, Cognition, Replit, Lovable and Factory.
- [Bitbucket Status](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/bitbucket-status): Incidents reported by Bitbucket. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the public Bitbucket status page.
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/bls): People employed as software developers in the US. License: US government work. Credit: Data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS has not reviewed or endorsed this site or its results.
- [BLS producer price index](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/bls-prices): Prices software publishers receive in the US. License: US government work. Credit: Data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS has not reviewed or endorsed this site or its results.
- [Bluesky](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/bluesky): Stance in a sample of public posts. 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.
- [Census Business Formation Statistics](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/census-bfs): New US business applications in the information sector. License: US government public data. Credit: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Formation Statistics. This site is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.
- [CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/cisa-kev): Vulnerabilities confirmed as exploited in the wild. License: CC0 1.0. Credit: Data from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Use does not imply endorsement by CISA or DHS. We count entries and publish the results.
- [Claude Status](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/claude-status): Incidents reported by Claude. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the public Claude status page.
- [DigitalOcean Status](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/digitalocean-status): Incidents reported by DigitalOcean. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the public DigitalOcean status page.
- [Discord Status](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/discord-status): Incidents reported by Discord. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the public Discord status page.
- [Dropbox Status](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/dropbox-status): Incidents reported by Dropbox. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the public Dropbox status page.
- [BLS job openings and hires](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/economy-jolts): US information sector openings, hires and layoffs. License: Public domain, citation requested. Credit: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, JOLTS, information sector [JTU5100JOL, JTU5100HIL, JTU5100LDL], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
- [BEA software investment](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/economy-spending): US real private fixed investment in software. License: Public domain, citation requested. Credit: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, real private fixed investment in software [B985RX1Q020SBEA], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Not endorsed or certified by BEA.
- [Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/epoch-benchmarks): Model scores on coding benchmarks. License: CC BY 4.0. Credit: Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from https://epoch.ai/benchmarks. Results collected from other projects keep their original terms, and we quote only top scores from those.
- [Exploit-DB](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/exploit-db): Public exploits published. License: GPL-2.0. Credit: Dates from the Exploit Database by OffSec. We count entries and publish the results.
- [Federal funds rate](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/fed-funds): Federal funds effective rate, monthly. License: Public domain, citation requested. Credit: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US), Federal Funds Effective Rate [FEDFUNDS], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
- [GitHub MCP repositories](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/github-mcp): New public repositories tagged mcp-server, by month. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the GitHub search API.
- [GitHub Status](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/github-status): Incidents reported by GitHub. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the public GitHub status page.
- [Hacker News](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/hacker-news): Stance in sampled comments, job posts and topic mentions. 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.
- [Have I Been Pwned](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/hibp): Verified data breaches and accounts exposed. License: CC BY 4.0. Credit: Breach data from Have I Been Pwned (haveibeenpwned.com). We count verified breaches and publish the results.
- [HTTP Archive](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/http-archive): Sites built on AI builders, and each website platform's share of crawled sites. License: No data license published. Credit: Source: HTTP Archive, httparchive.org. Counts derived from its Technology Report API, which detects technologies with Wappalyzer. No formal data license is published. A maintainer has said on its forum that people are free to use the data, and asked for this citation.
- [Indeed Hiring Lab](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/indeed): Software development job postings by country. License: CC BY 4.0. Credit: Data from the Indeed Hiring Lab Job Postings Index, licensed under CC BY 4.0. We calculate changes and comparisons from the published index.
- [GitHub Innovation Graph](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/innovation-graph): Git pushes, developers and repositories by quarter. License: CC0 1.0. Credit: Data from the GitHub Innovation Graph, released under CC0 1.0.
- [Linode Status](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/linode-status): Incidents reported by Linode. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the public Linode status page.
- [LiteLLM model prices](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/litellm): Listed prices for AI models over time. License: MIT. Credit: Calculated from the LiteLLM model price file by BerriAI, MIT License.
- [Official MCP Registry](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/mcp-registry): Servers published to the registry, by first publish month. License: CC0 1.0. Credit: This data comes from the Official MCP Registry, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by the registry.
- [METR Time Horizons](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/metr): Length of task a model completes half the time. License: No data license found. Credit: Figure quoted from METR Time Horizons.
- [Our survey of AI models](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/model-opinions): Scores from AI models asked the same question. License: Our own run. Credit: Our own survey of AI models, run through OpenRouter.
- [MongoDB Cloud Status](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/mongodb-status): Incidents reported by MongoDB Cloud. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the public MongoDB Cloud status page.
- [Netlify Status](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/netlify-status): Incidents reported by Netlify. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the public Netlify status page.
- [SEC filings for Wix and Shopify](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/no-code-sec): Annual revenue of Wix and Shopify. License: US government public data. Credit: Revenue from filings on SEC EDGAR.
- [npm](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/npm): Total monthly package downloads. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the npm public downloads API.
- [National Vulnerability Database](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/nvd): Every published CVE. License: US government work. Credit: This product uses data from the NVD but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. We count entries and publish the results.
- [New York Fed recent graduates data](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/nyfed-graduates): Unemployment among recent graduates, by major. License: New York Fed Terms of Use, with attribution. Credit: © 2026 Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Content from the New York Fed subject to the Terms of Use at newyorkfed.org.
- [OpenCode Data](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/opencode-data): Average AI usage cost per session, quoted by hand. License: No data license published. Credit: OpenCode Data (opencode.ai/data), updated Nov 1, 2026, 10:18 AM UTC.
- [OpenRouter](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/openrouter): Tokens used per AI model, by month. License: CC BY 4.0. Credit: Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 2026-11-01T09:28:31.358Z. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- [OpenRouter programming and app data](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/openrouter-categories): Programming tokens and tokens by coding app. License: CC BY 4.0. Credit: Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 2026-11-01T09:28:31.358Z. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- [OSV](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/osv): npm and PyPI advisories, including malicious packages. License: CC BY 4.0 and Apache 2.0, by upstream database. Credit: Data from OSV, including the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPI Advisory Database and OpenSSF Malicious Packages. We count entries and publish the results.
- [SEC filings for outsourcing companies](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/outsourcing): Annual revenue and employees at five public outsourcing companies. License: US government public data. Credit: Revenue and employees from filings on SEC EDGAR.
- [pwn.watch](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/pwn-watch): Security incidents, breaches and supply chain attacks. License: No license published. Credit: Incident data from pwn.watch by @thekitze. We count records and publish our own analysis.
- [Render Status](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/render-status): Incidents reported by Render. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the public Render status page.
- [SEC EDGAR](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/sec): Reported annual revenue of 10 public software companies. License: US government data. Credit: Data from SEC EDGAR filings. The SEC has not reviewed or endorsed this site or its results.
- [Sentry Status](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/sentry-status): Incidents reported by Sentry. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the public Sentry status page.
- [Stack Exchange API](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/stack-overflow): Questions asked on Stack Overflow per month. License: API Terms of Use, with attribution. Credit: Source: Stack Exchange Network, Stack Overflow, through the Stack Exchange API.
- [Stack Overflow Developer Survey](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/stack-overflow-survey): Developer views on AI tools, 2025. License: ODbL 1.0. Credit: Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025, survey.stackoverflow.co. Survey data licensed under ODbL 1.0.
- [BEA and BLS information sector data](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/tech-output): US information sector real output and employment. License: Public domain, citation requested. Credit: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Real Value Added by Industry: Information [RVAI], and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, All Employees, Information [USINFO], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Not endorsed or certified by BEA.
- [Uneed](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/uneed): Products launched per month. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the public Uneed sitemap.
- [Zoom Status](https://issoftwaresolved.com/sources/zoom-status): Incidents reported by Zoom. License: No data license published. Credit: Counts derived from the public Zoom status page.

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