OpenAI still leads in agentic terminal coding, but by less.
Claude can plan the work and then run hundreds of parallel subagents in a single session (and with Opus 4.8, the agents can run for even longer)
That’s one way to turn profitable before the IPO, I guess. Goodbye tokens.
The tech is good, it’s how business has been built around it that’s the problem I think.
Ore accurate prices of open weight models would have softened the rush.
The copyright issues would be less if everything was open weight.