Usage & adoption

Usage & adoption is one of the themes Above the Fog’s AI hype radar sorts its stories into. On Sep 27, 2026, 416 kept stories were about it (24% of the day, against a 7-day average of 19%). 3,441 stories in 7 days, about as many as the week before.

Stories on Sep 27

416

Share of the day

24%

Share, 7-day average

19%

Change vs the 7-day average

+5.4 percentage points

Stories in 7 days

3,441

The 7 days before

2,789

Week over week

steady (about as many as the week before)

Hands-on share

66% (tutorials, show and tell, questions)

Topics in this theme

The tracked topics most present in its stories of the last 7 days:

1. Claude — 1,368 stories (the 7 days before: 1,002)
2. AI agents — 612 stories (the 7 days before: 550)
3. Claude Code — 605 stories (the 7 days before: 507)
4. OpenAI Codex — 407 stories (the 7 days before: 449)
5. ChatGPT — 382 stories (the 7 days before: 334)
6. GPT-6 Astra — 317 stories (the 7 days before: 338)
7. OpenAI — 168 stories (the 7 days before: 158)
8. Gemini — 166 stories (the 7 days before: 158)
9. Model Context Protocol — 164 stories (the 7 days before: 170)
10. Vibe coding — 131 stories (the 7 days before: 117)
11. Anthropic — 121 stories (the 7 days before: 127)
12. Jev — 109 stories (the 7 days before: 73)

Also in this theme: Instinct, DeepSeek, Cognition, SF AI hackathons and events, Antigravity, GPT-5.6 Sol - Terra - Luna, Muse Spark, GitHub Copilot, OpenRouter, AGENTS.md, LangChain, LangGraph, OpenCode, Claude Fable - Mythos 5.1, Dreamforce 2026.

Companies in its stories

The main company involved in each story, by share of the stories (30% involve none):

• Anthropic — 33%
• OpenAI — 18%
• Other company — 11%
• Google — 3.2%
• Meta — 2.1%

Kinds of stories

• Show and tell — 46%
• Opinion — 25%
• Question — 12%
• News — 9.1%
• Tutorial — 7.5%
• Research — 0.4%

Where its stories come from

Top stories on Sep 27

1. What tool have you built for yourself with Claude code that removes so much headache in your work or personal life? — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Sep 27 · score 1,062 · 518 comments
2. Been testing the new gemini model at work for ~10 days, kinda losing my mind — Reddit (r/GeminiAI) · Sep 27 · score 433 · 150 comments
3. One month without AI — Lobste.rs (#vibecoding) · Sep 27 · score 97 · 14 comments
4. I was impressed by Jev, please explain why I shouldn't be — Hacker News · Sep 27 · score 12 · 15 comments
5. Do We Still Need Code Reviews in the Age of Coding Agents? — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 27 · score 8 · 13 comments
6. I Tried to Prompt a 3D DEV Library Into Existence. Then I Had to Build My Own Level Editor. — DEV Community (dev.to) (#devchallenge) · Sep 27 · score 21 · 4 comments

Stories per day, last 30 days

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