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AnthropicX · Jun 16, 2026 · official

Coding success by occupation

Anthropic's benchmark bar chart drew 62.2K views on X: 0.1x its median post and #480 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.

Success by occupation compared to software engineers

Published by Anthropic on X, Jun 16, 2026. Source: x.com
43/ 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.

#716 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #52 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, at #716 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its 62.2K views sit at 0.14x Anthropic's 431K median, ranking #46 of 56 Anthropic posts.

The 0.37% engagement rate lands at the 15th percentile among AI chart posts, against a 0.73% median.

At 0.035 views per follower, it sits at the 21st percentile among posts with known followers.

0.03views per follower

62.2K views from an account with 1.8M followers.

0.1xAnthropic's median post

62.2K views, where Anthropic's typical post gets 431K.

bottom 15%engagement rate

0.37% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

2posts from Anthropic that day

Part of a run of 2 posts on Jun 16, 2026. This one was #2 of 2 by views that day.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 12, 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 #716 of 1,162

Views62.2K#480top 41%
Likes198#646bottom 44%
Engagement rate0.37%#984bottom 15%
Save rate0.048%#845bottom 27%

Among 56 Anthropic posts

Score #52 of 56

Views62.2K#46bottom 19%
Likes198#47bottom 17%
Engagement rate0.37%#44bottom 22%
Save rate0.048%#36bottom 37%

Growth

One read so far

Views62.2K
Age at our read118 days
Views per day of life526views divided by days since it was posted

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 · Jun 16, 2026

Anthropic posts coding success by occupation chart

The June 16, 2026 benchmark bar chart reached 62.2K views and a 0.37% engagement rate, below the AI chart median.

What happened

Anthropic published a benchmark bar chart on June 16, 2026, on coding success by occupation. It was one of 2 posts from the account that day, alongside a post on work session changes over seven months.

The numbers

It reached 62.2K views, ranking #480 of 1,162 AI chart posts, and scored #716 of 1,162 AI chart posts. Among Anthropic posts it ranks #52 of 56 by score and #46 of 56 by views.

The lesson

At 0.048% save rate against a 0.37% engagement rate, this benchmark bar chart drew more likes than saves. A single chart with printed values from 34% to 94% still left the save rate at 0.048%.

What it means

At #52 of 56 Anthropic posts by score, this chart sits near the bottom of the account's own range. The 0.14x gap to Anthropic's 431K median views shows the account's chart posts travel far above this one.

Written by ViralChart from public numbers read on Oct 12, 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 96%
SeriesGroupValueRead
Verified successSoftware & math34 %printed
Judged successSoftware & math51 %printed
At least partial successSoftware & math60 %printed
Software & math benchmarksSoftware & math94 %printed
Verified successManagement37 %printed
Judged successManagement55 %printed
At least partial successManagement95 %printed
Verified successLegal33 %printed
Judged successLegal57 %printed
At least partial successLegal95 %printed
Verified successBusiness & Finance29 %printed
Judged successBusiness & Finance54 %printed

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

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/5e2f5008c16a.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/5e2f5008c16a.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/5e2f5008c16a.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 5e2f5008c16a.

PathReturnsPlan
GET/api/v1/charts/5e2f5008c16aTitle, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data linkOpen
GET/api/v1/charts/5e2f5008c16a/dataEvery point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSVMax
GET/api/v1/charts/5e2f5008c16a/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/5e2f5008c16a/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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