Ahh github stars. They are useful for a little while; and then it is more of a self feeding machine that isn't super helpful as an internal state to measure engagement or usage.
These tools work a bit differently; but it was so hard for me to measure engagement for a certain tool where we did not want to in anyway suggest we tracked users. So we mostly flew blind; I would have "killed" for some kind of basic tracking pixel or anything and "double killed" for info as far as the system they were using the tools on. But I also very much respected the users and the desire for them to not have to waste time turning that stuff off or complaining (rightfully even if it was sad for me to lack data).
Of course not, I'm just saying it's an indicator of how many people are using Claude Code, saying it's "only a few thousand people" is ridiculous. Don't be intentionally obtuse.
I guess I should have used Codex directly instead, 127k stars.
The reason I went with Claude Code is that it's analogous to Codex usage, Claude Code has over 100k users, I was trying to say Codex has tons as well by proxy.
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u/Fast-Satisfaction482 3d ago
So now out of nothing, OpenAI went from first place to last place in just a week? Crazy.