OpenAI Codex/Claude went from a weekend project to 250,000 GitHub stars.

Anthropic developed a new tool called Claude Code-work, a non-coding version of Claude Code, in a week and a half, almost entirely with Claude Opus.

Claude Code is experiencing a "breakout moment" among developers, particularly with the most recent model, Opus 4.5, enabling the creation of whole apps and end-to-end tasks.

Remotion, a React video framework, has quietly grown since January 2026 and crossed over 150,000 installs as a Claude Code skill.

HubSpot created a free guide called 'The AI Coding Showdown' that compares OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code side-by-side.

Claude Code's revenue went from $0 to $1 billion in six months, making it the fastest growth of any business software in history.