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AnthropicX · Sep 28, 2026 · official

Knowledge work by effort level

Anthropic's line chart drew 358K views on X: 0.8x its median post and #185 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 13, 2026.

Knowledge work performance by effort level

XDataLine chartClaude Opus 5All Anthropic modelsSonnet 5.5Opus 5.5Sonnet 5GPT-5 Sol
Published by Anthropic on X, Sep 28, 2026. Source: x.com
73/ 100

ViralChart score

Reached and resonated

More views and a higher engagement rate than the median post: it travelled and people acted on it.

#154 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #20 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 Reached and resonated, at #154 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its score of 73 ranks #154 of 1,162 AI chart posts, above the field.

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

Saves sit at 0.051%, 0.67x the AI median and 30th percentile among AI chart posts.

4charts in this one post

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

0.19views per follower

358K views from an account with 1.9M followers.

4.9xthe median line chart post

Across 68 line chart posts we hold, the median gets 73.7K views.

bottom 30%save rate

0.051% of viewers bookmarked it to come back to. The median post gets 0.076%.

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 #154 of 1,162

Views358K#185top 16%
Likes2.4K#122top 10%
Engagement rate0.75%#562top 48%
Save rate0.051%#814bottom 30%

Among 56 Anthropic posts

Score #20 of 56

Views358K#30bottom 47%
Likes2.4K#25top 44%
Engagement rate0.75%#17top 29%
Save rate0.051%#33bottom 42%

Growth

Our reads cover 27 hours

Views358K
Age at our read15 days
Views per day of life23.8Kviews divided by days since it was posted
Gained between our reads+223views over 27 hours, about 195 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 28, 2026

Anthropic charts knowledge work performance by effort level

A 4-chart Anthropic post on knowledge work by effort level drew 358K views and 2.4K likes, with saves below the AI median.

What happened

Anthropic posted a line chart on knowledge work performance by effort level on September 28, 2026. The post carried 4 charts, including agentic coding CursorBench, agentic coding FrontierCode1.1 and agentic terminal coding by effort level, and it was the account's only post that day.

The numbers

It reached 358K views, #185 of 1,162 AI chart posts, against a median of 39.9K. Its score of 73 ranks #154 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #20 of 56 Anthropic posts.

The lesson

The chart shows knowledge work performance by effort level across 4 models, and the post drew 358K views. Its save rate of 0.051% sits at 0.67x the AI median, so the reach did not carry into saves.

What it means

At #20 of 56 Anthropic posts, this chart post trails the account's own top posts. Its 0.051% save rate against the 0.076% AI median marks a gap on the metric that keeps a chart in circulation.

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

20 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 73%
SeriesGroupValueRead
Sonnet 5.5Low1280estimated
Sonnet 5.5Med1450estimated
Sonnet 5.5High1615estimated
Sonnet 5.5Xhigh1750estimated
Sonnet 5.5Max1800estimated
Opus 5.5Low1300estimated
Opus 5.5Med1495estimated
Opus 5.5High1705estimated
Opus 5.5Xhigh1765estimated
Opus 5.5Max1800estimated
Sonnet 5Low940estimated
Sonnet 5Med1055estimated

Showing 12 of 20. All points, the redraw and the maker

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/f9d837657d27.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/f9d837657d27.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/f9d837657d27.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 f9d837657d27.

PathReturnsPlan
GET/api/v1/charts/f9d837657d27Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data linkOpen
GET/api/v1/charts/f9d837657d27/dataEvery point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSVMax
GET/api/v1/charts/f9d837657d27/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/f9d837657d27/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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