Happy New Year 🚀

One year ago we predicted that English would become the most important programming language. The term "vibe coding" coined by Andre Karpathy in the beginning of the year quickly caught on as models evolved from occasionally valuable but mostly frustrating to incredibly capable programmers now writing a big chunk of the production code in the major AI labs.

Alexander Embiricos, product lead for Codex at OpenAI, told Ars Technica in December that "the vast majority of Codex is built by Codex, so it's almost entirely just being used to improve itself." Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, made an even wilder claim that went viral over Christmas when he posted on December 27 that in the last thirty days every single line of his code was written by Claude Code and Opus 4.5.

We expect this trend to continue in 2026, moving from AI-assisted coding to AI doing most, if not all the coding, with humans orchestrating and assisting when relevant. As this shift accelerates, the main human contribution will increasingly be taste, judgment, and decision-making: knowing what to build, what to keep, what to discard, and when the output is good enough.

We also predicted that 2025 would be the rise of AI agents. AI agents arrived as models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google built reasoning and multi-step task handling into their flagship models. What we did not expect was how the launch of Claude Code would change everything. Claude Code emerged as a multi-purpose agent that goes far beyond coding. It turns your computer into a personal assistant that can work for hours on your files and data without constant hand-holding — handling everything from hours of research to strategy alignment to analyzing and extracting data from thousands of PDFs.

We are all in on Claude Code and have been for a while. In 2026, we will focus more on sharing content that helps people unlock its value for both coding and non-coding use cases. We have launched a Mastering Claude Code series on YouTube, we are hosting monthly Claude Code meetups in Oslo, and we will share more practical examples and workflows going forward. We are also building GritAI Agent using the Claude Code SDK to help customers deploy AI agents for their specific use cases.

Getting Started with Claude Code

Episode 0 – Start Here 👇

Get from zero to up and running with Claude Code. Learn what it is, how to install it, log in, trust a project, and start working with real files in minutes.

Episode 1 – Essential Shortcuts

Learn the key shortcuts, modes, and commands that improve speed and control in daily use, including permissions, plan mode, and context management.

AI Pulse 🚨

A bite-sized curation of this week's most important AI news.

💰 The funding war heats up: Anthropic is raising $10 billion at a $350 billion valuation, nearly doubling its value in just four months. xAI closed $20 billion in Series E funding from Nvidia, Fidelity, and others, exceeding its $15B target to scale Grok and expand data centers.

📧 Gmail gets AI superpowers: Google is bringing Gemini to Gmail with AI Overviews that summarize email threads, Help Me Write for drafting messages, and a new AI Inbox that filters clutter and highlights what matters most. These features are rolling out now to 3 billion Gmail users. Not available in Norway (yet).

🔄 Claude Code Update: Anthropic shipped Claude Code 2.1.x as a major update to Anthropic’s open-source terminal coding agent. The release includes 1,096 commits across agent execution, skills, permissions, and CLI behavior.

🛠️ VS Code gets Agent Skills: Visual Studio Code 1.108 introduced Agent Skills, allowing GitHub Copilot to learn specialized tasks through folders of scripts and instructions.

🏥 Health meets AI: OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health, a platform that integrates health information with AI to help users understand and manage their wellness better. This marks OpenAI’s first major move into the healthcare space.

🤖 Meta acquires talent: Meta acquired Manus, a highly discussed Chinese AI startup focused on research and automation, strengthening its position in the AI agent space. Reuters and others report that China’s Ministry of Commerce will “assess and investigate” the acquisition, creating some uncertainty about the deal ultimately going through.

Claude Code Community Event​

​We are kicking off 2026 with another Claude Code Community Event in Oslo, organized by local Claude Code enthusiasts in collaboration with Mesh and supported by Anthropic. For everyone who loves building with Claude Code or are curious about learning more! This is for everyone!

Almost all seats were taken the day the event was launched. You can still sign up for the waitlist and we will notify you if spots open up.

📅 January 21 - 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
📍 Mesh Youngstorget, Oslo

GritAI Accelerator Program

We still have a few slots open for our AI accelerator starting in January. If you want hands-on help turning AI into real results this year, apply now.

​Secure your spot in the first cohort. Limited to 5 companies. 👇

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