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Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 16, 2026

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Claude Code largely defined the 'coding agent' that now powers most usage of LLMs (I don't know who invented the first one, probably Cursor?) and this is a big reason why Claude has become the dominant player aside from the quality of their models. It took a long time for ChatGPT to have Codex in a similar state and last I used Antigravity it was still well behind in basic usability.

So there's a lot of lock-in, much as ChatGPT still dominates in the public chatbot arena.

I think with Codex 5.3 it was generally felt that OpenAI finally had a competitive coding agent and since then I think you could have easily switched between the frontier models of Anthropic and OpenAI. Honestly no idea how you've had an equivalent experience with Gemini though.

Another point is that outside of pure coding, Anthropic still seems quite a bit further in Enterprise. If you want an agent that can easily connect to most of your tech stack and you're in Sales, Marketing, HR, etc. then Claude still clears