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12 issues, newest first. Every number in every one carries the query that produced it.
Install crossover · Nº 14
Codex passes Claude Code in weekly npm installs
OpenAI's coding tool took the lead in weekly npm downloads while its front-page engagement left Anthropic's behind in the same week.
August 25 – September 9, 2026 (September is partial: 9 days of data) · 2026-09-09
AI Coding Agents · Nº 9
Codex catches Claude Code in installs, not in talk
Codex has closed the npm-download gap with Claude Code to 5% and is gaining GitHub stars 3.7× faster, yet still trails in developer conversation by 1.6×. The adoption gap is collapsing; the discourse gap is not.
February 2026 to August 2026 (August partial; weekly npm data through Aug 31) · 2026-09-09
The Crossover · Nº 13
OpenAI overtakes Anthropic in developer conversation as GPT-6 Astra lands
GPT-6 Astra's launch pushed the OpenAI family past Anthropic in developer conversation for the first time, even as Python SDK downloads fell for both.
March – September 2026 (September partial, ~7 days) · 2026-09-09
AI Coding Tools · Nº 8
Codex stars surge 11,400 in six days while conversation falls to 11
Codex added 11,385 GitHub stars in six days while its weekly conversation mentions fell to 11. Developers are starring without talking.
August 1-26, 2026 (partial month) · 2026-08-26
Conversation vs. Adoption · Nº 7
Chinese models took 12% of AI-model conversation and zero adoption
DeepSeek and Qwen grew 5.7× in developer mindshare from February to August while leaving no trace in package registries or job postings.
February 1 – August 26, 2026 · 2026-08-26
Model-layer mindshare · Nº 5
DeepSeek ties Anthropic
DeepSeek's V4 series has produced a sustained mindshare surge that tied Anthropic in August, yet with zero hiring signal. The developer economy's quietest breakout has no commercial ecosystem behind it.
February – August 14, 2026 (conversation); adoption snapshots through August 17, 2026 · 2026-08-22
PULSE · Nº 4
Kimi K3's Two-Week Flash
Kimi K3 produced the sharpest two-week conversation spike of any AI model this quarter, briefly overtaking Anthropic in share of voice, then collapsed to near zero with no hiring signal at any point.
July 6 to August 10, 2026 · 2026-08-22
The Conversation Gap · Nº 6
Anthropic's conversation share fell 22 points while its downloads rose 58%
The Anthropic family dropped 22 points of AI-model conversation share between March and August as OpenAI and DeepSeek gained, while its PyPI downloads rose 58% and npm downloads rose 20%.
February–August 2026 (August partial, 22 days in). · 2026-08-22
Maturity · AI infrastructure · Nº 3
The Argument About MCP Is Ending; Its Adoption Is Not
Developer conversation about the Model Context Protocol peaked in March and has cooled by roughly a quarter, even as its download base and repository creation continue to rise — the signature of a debate becoming plumbing.
February – June 2026 (conversation); adoption snapshots June 12–19, 2026 · 2026-07-07
Retrospective · Security · Nº 2
The Toolchain Is the Target Now
TanStack and Nx Console reached the US government's actively-exploited list on the same day, both flagged for ransomware. The software a developer installs without thinking is now front-line attack surface — and AI infrastructure is the fastest-growing part of it.
February – June 2026 · 2026-06-13
Retrospective · Mobile Frameworks · Nº 1
The Cross-Platform Mobile War Left the Building
React Native and Expo out-talk Flutter two to one — but the more telling number is that the whole debate has vanished from the front page, and the community that argues least is the one whose users keep talking.
February – May 2026 · 2026-06-13
Retrospective · AI Coding Tools · Nº 0
The AI Coding Wars
Eighteen weeks of developer conversation say the race everyone watched was never close — and the runner gaining ground is not the one in the headlines.
February – June 2026 · 2026-06-12
