Anthropic's Opus 4.5 and OpenClaw spark autonomous coding agent boom
anthropic released opus 4.5, claiming it outperforms human engineers, while the openclaw tool surged to 366,000 github stars by enabling autonomous ai agents.
anthropic unveiled opus 4.5, a claude code update capable of multi-hour programming tasks and managing subagents, which reportedly surpassed human scores on the company's notoriously difficult hiring exam. parallel to this, developer peter steinberger launched openclaw, an open-source tool empowering users to build autonomous agents that scour clouds and the web, achieving 366,000 github stars. industry figures like marc andreessen and thomas reardon herald this shift as an inevitable evolution in computing interfaces. despite risks, the technology is rapidly advancing from experimental use cases toward broader enterprise and consumer integration.