Week in AI Development: Nov 21-28, 2025

Published: • 4 min read • Data: Nov 21-28, 2025
Weekly Summary AI Coding Tools Developer Data

Cursor and Continue tied at 1,177 Reddit mentions each this week. Windsurf appeared with 144 mentions in its first tracked week. ChatGPT led Stack Overflow questions with 28, while Claude hit the Hacker News front page with 728 points. OpenAI's SDK reached 33.5M monthly NPM downloads, and NVIDIA CUDA crossed 99M Docker pulls.

Reddit: Cursor and Continue Tie at 1,177 Mentions

Both tools hit identical mention counts (Nov 21-28), but Cursor generated 3x more engagement.

Reddit Discussion Leaders (Nov 21-28)

  1. Cursor: 1,177 mentions • 4,284 total score • 2,475 comments
  2. Continue: 1,177 mentions • 1,381 total score • 463 comments
  3. Bolt: 1,159 mentions • 2,499 total score • 2,291 comments
  4. ChatGPT: 1,146 mentions • 2,391 total score • 1,929 comments
  5. Claude: 1,072 mentions • 2,604 total score • 1,703 comments
  6. v0: 1,068 mentions • 5,525 total score • 2,452 comments
  7. OpenAI: 1,050 mentions • 7,269 total score • 4,049 comments
  8. Lovable: 789 mentions • 5,741 total score • 2,482 comments
  9. Aider: 726 mentions • 2,644 total score • 1,589 comments
  10. Anthropic: 620 mentions • 4,571 total score • 2,565 comments

Cursor: 4,284 total score, 2,475 comments
Continue: 1,381 total score, 463 comments

Other notable tools: Bolt (1,159 mentions), ChatGPT (1,146), Claude (1,072), v0 (1,068), OpenAI (1,050), Lovable (789), Aider (726), Anthropic (620).

Windsurf Appears in First Tracked Week

144 Reddit mentions (453 score, 440 comments)
1 Stack Overflow question (4 views, 0 answers)

This is Windsurf's first week in our tracking. For comparison: Tabnine had 2 Reddit mentions this week, Codeium had 1.

Stack Overflow Questions

Tool Questions (7 days) Total Views Answers
ChatGPT 28 567 1
Cursor 22 597 10
OpenAI 8 216 2
GitHub Copilot 4 90 3
Claude 4 92 0
Windsurf 1 4 0
Anthropic 1 27 0
Continue 1 15 0
v0 1 29 0
Aider 1 11 0

ChatGPT led with 28 questions despite being a general-purpose chatbot. Cursor had 22 questions with a 45% answer rate (10 answered). New tools (Windsurf, Claude, Continue, v0, Aider, Anthropic) had questions but no answers yet.

NPM Downloads

Package Monthly Downloads Weekly Downloads
openai 33.5M 7.7M
ai (Vercel AI SDK) 20.8M 5.2M
@anthropic-ai/sdk 12.4M 3.0M
@langchain/core 8.5M 2.0M
@google/generative-ai 6.1M 1.6M
langchain 5.4M 1.2M
@ai-sdk/xai 1.6M 389K
ollama 1.5M 468K
cohere-ai 1.4M 461K
@huggingface/inference 961K 227K

OpenAI leads at 33.5M monthly downloads. Vercel AI SDK (provider-agnostic framework) reached 20.8M. Anthropic SDK hit 12.4M. xAI's SDK reached 1.6M in its first months.

PyPI Downloads

Package Monthly Downloads Weekly Downloads
huggingface-hub 137M 31M
openai 136.5M 29.9M
transformers 116M 25.3M
langchain 96M 21.8M
langchain-core 76M 17.1M
anthropic 32.6M 7.3M
google-generativeai 14M 3.4M
cohere 11.6M 2.8M
llama-index 8.2M 1.5M
ollama 7.3M 1.6M

HuggingFace Hub led at 137M monthly downloads, narrowly ahead of OpenAI at 136.5M. Transformers (HuggingFace's ML library) hit 116M. LangChain's combined downloads (langchain + langchain-core) totaled 172M.

Docker Pulls

NVIDIA CUDA container images reached 99.1M pulls this week. CUDA is required for PyTorch, TensorFlow, and most deep learning frameworks.

Hacker News

Claude had one post this week: 728 points, 329 comments. This was the only AI coding tool to hit the Hacker News front page.


Data Sources & Methodology

All data collected from production systems Nov 21-28, 2025:

  • Reddit: Mentions, scores, and comment counts via Reddit API across programming subreddits
  • Stack Overflow: Questions, views, and answers via Stack Exchange API
  • Hacker News: Stories, scores, and comments via HN Firebase API
  • NPM: Weekly and monthly download counts via NPM Registry API
  • PyPI: Weekly and monthly download counts via PyPI Stats API
  • Docker Hub: Pull counts via Docker Hub API

Verification: All metrics backed by database queries. View our methodology.

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