The Agentic Coding Revolution

In December 2025, Anthropic announced that Claude Code had reached one billion dollars in annualised revenue within six months of its general availability launch. The agentic coding tool, which lives in the terminal and can read, write, and execute code autonomously, had captured 54 per cent of the enterprise coding market. OpenAI's competing offerings held 21 per cent. The numbers signalled a fundamental shift in how software gets built. But the same month brought very different statistics. Ver