--- title: "Usage & adoption — AI theme on Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Usage & adoption [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Themes](https://abovethefog.app/themes.md) › 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](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) — 1,368 stories (the 7 days before: 1,002) 2. [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) — 612 stories (the 7 days before: 550) 3. [Claude Code](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code.md) — 605 stories (the 7 days before: 507) 4. [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md) — 407 stories (the 7 days before: 449) 5. [ChatGPT](https://abovethefog.app/topics/chatgpt.md) — 382 stories (the 7 days before: 334) 6. [GPT-6 Astra](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt6.md) — 317 stories (the 7 days before: 338) 7. [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) — 168 stories (the 7 days before: 158) 8. [Gemini](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini.md) — 166 stories (the 7 days before: 158) 9. [Model Context Protocol](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mcp.md) — 164 stories (the 7 days before: 170) 10. [Vibe coding](https://abovethefog.app/topics/vibe_coding.md) — 131 stories (the 7 days before: 117) 11. [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) — 121 stories (the 7 days before: 127) 12. [Jev](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jev.md) — 109 stories (the 7 days before: 73) Also in this theme: [Instinct](https://abovethefog.app/topics/instinct.md), [DeepSeek](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek.md), [Cognition](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cognition.md), [SF AI hackathons and events](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_hackathons.md), [Antigravity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/antigravity.md), [GPT-5.6 Sol - Terra - Luna](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt56.md), [Muse Spark](https://abovethefog.app/topics/muse_spark.md), [GitHub Copilot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/github_copilot.md), [OpenRouter](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openrouter.md), [AGENTS.md](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agents_md.md), [LangChain](https://abovethefog.app/topics/langchain.md), [LangGraph](https://abovethefog.app/topics/langgraph.md), [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md), [Claude Fable - Mythos 5.1](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_fable_mythos.md), [Dreamforce 2026](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dreamforce.md). ## 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 | Source | Stories in 7 days | Share | |---|---:|---:| | Reddit | 2,351 | 68% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | 455 | 13% | | Google News (RSS) | 259 | 7.5% | | Mastodon (fediverse) | 160 | 4.7% | | Hacker News | 86 | 2.5% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | 44 | 1.3% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | 21 | 0.6% | | Tech press (RSS) | 19 | 0.5% | ## 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?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wrckhp/) — 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](https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1wre2th/) — Reddit (r/GeminiAI) · Sep 27 · score 433 · 150 comments 3. [One month without AI](https://lobste.rs/s/ivbx5f/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](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868483) — Hacker News · Sep 27 · score 12 · 15 comments 5. [Do We Still Need Code Reviews in the Age of Coding Agents?](https://dev.to/remojansen/do-we-still-need-code-reviews-in-the-age-of-coding-agents-31eg) — 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.](https://dev.to/mikachu/i-tried-to-prompt-a-3d-dev-library-into-existence-then-i-had-to-build-my-own-level-editor-37gf) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#devchallenge) · Sep 27 · score 21 · 4 comments ## Stories per day, last 30 days | Day | Stories | |---|---:| | Sep 27, 2026 | 416 | | Sep 26, 2026 | 447 | | Sep 25, 2026 | 543 | | Sep 24, 2026 | 537 | | Sep 23, 2026 | 537 | | Sep 22, 2026 | 523 | | Sep 21, 2026 | 438 | | Sep 20, 2026 | 334 | | Sep 19, 2026 | 316 | | Sep 18, 2026 | 474 | | Sep 17, 2026 | 442 | | Sep 16, 2026 | 407 | | Sep 15, 2026 | 398 | | Sep 14, 2026 | 418 | | Sep 13, 2026 | 342 | | Sep 12, 2026 | 325 | | Sep 11, 2026 | 361 | | Sep 10, 2026 | 400 | | Sep 9, 2026 | 381 | | Sep 8, 2026 | 361 | | Sep 7, 2026 | 421 | | Sep 6, 2026 | 395 | | Sep 5, 2026 | 374 | | Sep 4, 2026 | 377 | | Sep 3, 2026 | 286 | | Sep 2, 2026 | 347 | | Sep 1, 2026 | 338 | | Aug 31, 2026 | 317 | | Aug 30, 2026 | 301 | | Aug 29, 2026 | 280 | [Open Usage & adoption in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#theme=usage_adoption) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)