Claude Code: how often the top podcasts talk about it.
Claude Code came up in 3 of 89 episodes (3%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, against 8% in the earlier weeks. A change this size could be chance, so we do not call it a trend.
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 3 episodes behind the newest bar
- From AGENTS.md to Enterprise DeploymentPractical AI · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- Computer-Use Agents and the Future of the Agentic InternetPractical AI · week ending Sep 13 · said it 8 times
- Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · said it 3 times
Earliest mentions in our archive
The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.
“…enemy in a team. Amjad, you can shoot one. Claude Code, Lovable Bull, or Bass 44. Which one do you shoot?”
Replit CEO: Why Coding Models are Plateauing & Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified | Amj…
“…popular episode on this podcast. No pressure. He uh created Claude Code. He leads the team, ships uh a bazillion PRs…”
How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Cla…
“Check. I'm going to use Claude code to add payments to my site.”
“Three, could you go the other way? Could you have something like Claude Code "Slow Mode", where if you are willing to wait for minutes on end, you could get even cheaper prices?”
How GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini are actually trained and served – Reiner Pope
“…in the company for a good while now. Claude code I think has has taken the the reign on that. We have a internal…”
The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied…
“…limits. Well, Claude has now doubled the Claude code rate limits, removed peak usage caps for paid users, and increased…”
Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom
Most recent mentions
The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.
“…gateway that we run, that front all of our MCP servers, and then you can say, "Hey, go give me a give me a way to connect this to my Cursor, or my Claude Code, or my whatever." And then it just injects it in there, and then then your local agent has all the tools that are approved as well for…”
“…would have been, I think it should be winner take all. And yet, Claude Code, Codex, Lovable, Replit, Wobby, like…”
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
“…was rather skeptical, and I was using AI in certain ways, but I was not the first person who downloaded Claude Code. I think Boris released that in end of February. I don't think I installed Claude Code until…”
DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Po…
“What are they doing in there? You know, I know they're using Claude Code, huge, massive Claude Code customer, but how…”
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
“…disrupted area of SaaS right now because, I mean, what is Claude code really good at? I mean, that's the…”
Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels Ch…
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| Practical AI | 2 | 2 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 1 | 4 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 0 | 5 |
| All-In Podcast | 0 | 4 |
| How I AI | 0 | 3 |
| TBPN | 0 | 3 |
| Cheeky Pint | 0 | 1 |
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 0 | 1 |
| Latent Space | 0 | 1 |
| Lex Fridman Podcast | 0 | 1 |
| The Tim Ferriss Show | 0 | 1 |
More trends
Episodes in the newest four weeks:
How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “Claude Code” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.