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AnthropicX · Sep 22, 2026 · official

Agentic coding by effort level

Anthropic's line chart drew 1.5M views on X: 3.5x its median post and #76 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 13, 2026.

Agentic coding performance by effort level

XDataLine chartClaude Opus 5All Anthropic modelsOpus 5.5GPT-6 Astra (Codex CLI)GPT-5.6 Sol (Codex CLI)
Published by Anthropic on X, Sep 22, 2026. Source: x.com
68/ 100

ViralChart score

Wide but thin

More views than the median post but a lower engagement rate: many saw it, few acted. Common for big accounts.

#259 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #29 of 56 Anthropic posts. Score = views 40%, likes 30%, engagement rate 15%, save rate 15%, each as a percentile of every AI chart post we hold.

Our read

The post sits in the Wide but thin quadrant, with a score rank of #259 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its 0.26% engagement rate sits at the 7th percentile among AI chart posts, in the bottom decile.

The 1.5M views are 3.5x Anthropic's 431K median, ranking #15 of 56 Anthropic posts by views.

The post carries 4 charts, and every chart in the post shares the post's numbers.

67xthe median line chart post

Across 187 line chart posts we hold, the median gets 22.4K views.

4charts in this one post

The numbers belong to the post, so every chart in it shares them and it is ranked once.

bottom 7%engagement rate

0.26% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

3.5xAnthropic's median post

1.5M views, where Anthropic's typical post gets 431K.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 13, 2026. Peers: 1,162 AI chart posts we hold and 56 from Anthropic.

Where it sits

Reach against resonance

Each dot is a post. Right is more views, up is a higher engagement rate. The lines are the medians, so the four corners are the four kinds of post.

Among 1,162 AI chart posts we hold

Score #259 of 1,162

Views1.5M#76top 6%
Likes3.6K#84top 7%
Engagement rate0.26%#1,078bottom 7%
Save rate0.027%#1,005bottom 14%

Among 56 Anthropic posts

Score #29 of 56

Views1.5M#15top 26%
Likes3.6K#20top 35%
Engagement rate0.26%#53bottom 6%
Save rate0.027%#45bottom 21%

Growth

Our reads cover 27 hours

Views1.5M
Age at our read21 days
Views per day of life71.8Kviews divided by days since it was posted
Gained between our reads+926views over 27 hours, about 820 a day now

Dots are our reads. The dotted line from the day it was posted to our first read is a gap, not data.

Anthropic's posts over time

Every post from this account we hold, by date and views. This one is marked; the line is the running median of the last 10.

News · Sep 22, 2026

Anthropic posts agentic coding by effort level line chart

The September 22, 2026 post drew 1.5M views against a 39.9K median among AI chart posts, with engagement at 0.26%.

What happened

Anthropic posted a line chart on agentic coding by effort level on September 22, 2026. It came with 4 charts in the post and 1 other post from the account that day.

The numbers

It reached 1.5M views, #76 of 1,162 AI chart posts by views and #15 of 56 Anthropic posts. Its score rank is #259 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

The lesson

At 0.26% engagement against a 0.73% median among AI chart posts, this line chart landed in the bottom decile. The 4 charts in the post share the post's numbers, so the save rate of 0.027% covers all of them.

What it means

The 1.5M views are 3.5x Anthropic's 431K median, but the 0.26% engagement rate is below the account's own 0.56% median. The gap between #76 of 1,162 AI chart posts by views and #1,078 of 1,162 by engagement is the story.

Written by ViralChart from public numbers read on Oct 13, 2026. Every number is checked against our data before it is shown.

Data and API

31 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 36%
SeriesGroupValueRead
Opus 5.5low47.5 %printed
Opus 5.5med54.75 %estimated
Opus 5.5high53.5 %printed
Opus 5.5xhigh51 %printed
Opus 5.5max54 %printed
GPT-6 Astra (Codex CLI)xhigh52.5 %printed
GPT-6 Astra (Codex CLI)max51 %printed
GPT-5.6 Sol (Codex CLI)xhigh51 %printed
GPT-5.6 Sol (Codex CLI)max50.5 %printed
GPT-6 Astra (Codex CLI)xhigh50.5 %printed
GPT-6 Astra (Codex CLI)max49 %printed
GPT-5.6 Sol (Codex CLI)xhigh50.5 %printed

Showing 12 of 31. All points, the redraw and the maker

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/13cca9e21081.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/13cca9e21081.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/13cca9e21081.skill.md

Static files in this prototype. The post JSON holds the public numbers, ranks, score, quadrant, our reads and, when checked, our copy.

API · Max

Use this chart via API

On the Max plan you can pull this chart's numbers with the provenance of each one, as JSON or CSV, with its redraw spec, or call it from an agent over MCP. Chart id 13cca9e21081.

Approximate values. Our two readings of this chart agreed only in part (confidence 0.36 of 1), so check the original before you quote a number. The API marks it lowConfidence, and ?min_confidence=0.5 leaves it out.

PathReturnsPlan
GET/api/v1/charts/13cca9e21081Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data linkOpen
GET/api/v1/charts/13cca9e21081/dataEvery point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSVMax
GET/api/v1/charts/13cca9e21081/render?view=1The draw-only view this page usesOpen
POST/mcpTool get_chart_data with this id, for Claude, Cursor and other agentsMax
curlMax
curl -s https://viral-chart.com/api/v1/charts/13cca9e21081/data \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"
Claude CodeMax
claude mcp add --transport http viralchart https://viral-chart.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"

60 requests a minute per key; over that you get 429 with Retry-After. Up to 5 keys per account, made on your account page and shown once. Without Max, the data route answers 402 with a link to the plans. The numbers describe a chart its publisher owns, and every file carries a license note.

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