Microsoft falls behind Anthropic in the agentic AI coding race
microsoft is losing ground to anthropic's claude code in the agentic ai race while github suffers outages, signaling a potential shift in developer loyalty and the company's dominance in developer tools.
anthropic has seized the lead in agentic ai coding with its claude code, eclipsing microsoft's copilot which once led the pack. microsoft responded by revoking its own licenses for claude code to force internal adoption of copilot. meanwhile, github is experiencing significant outages due to high bot traffic, causing dissatisfaction among developers. microsoft vp scott hanselman argues the downtimes are scaling hiccups and highlighted the integration of the open-source openclaw framework into microsoft's new scout product to stay competitive.