Opencode

A lot happened in AI this week. The AI coding tool rankings changed. Two big AI companies filed to go public. And Google released a model that writes text in a new way. Here is everything that matters for developers, in one short read. 1. OpenCode Is the New #1 AI Coding Tool By GitHub stars, OpenCode now leads every open-source AI coding tool. Tool GitHub stars OpenCode 172K Gemini CLI 105K OpenAI Codex CLI 90K Cline 63K Goose 49K Aider 46K But popularity is not the full story. OpenCode has one feature the others do not. ...

In January 2026, Anthropic made a quiet change. They blocked Claude Pro and Max subscribers from using Claude through third-party tools. No announcement. No warning. Tools like OpenCode just stopped working overnight. The backlash was immediate. David Heinemeier Hansson — the creator of Ruby on Rails — posted on X: “Confirmation that Anthropic is intentionally blocking OpenCode, and any other 3P harness, in a paranoid attempt to force devs into Claude Code. Terrible policy for a company built on training models on our code, our writing, our everything.” ...