OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude spark coding revolution as developers say they’ve abandoned traditional programming

Is traditional coding dead? That’s the question many developers have been asking themselves this week following the launch of powerful new coding models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Last week, OpenAI and Anthropic dropped their respective coding models—GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6—both of which represented significant leaps in AI coding capabilities. GPT-5.3-Codex showed markedly higher performance on coding benchmarks than earlier models, while Opus 4.6 introduced a feature that...