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Comment by davidguetta

4 hours ago

WE DONT CARE HOW IT TALKS TO US, JUST WRITE CODE FAST AND SMART

Personal requests are 70% of usage

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34255/w342...

  • If you include API usage, personal requests are approximately 0% of total usage, rounded to the nearest percentage.

    • Are you sure about that?

      "The share of Technical Help declined from 12% from all usage in July 2024 to around 5% a year later – this may be because the use of LLMs for programming has grown very rapidly through the API (outside of ChatGPT), for AI assistance in code editing and for autonomous programming agents (e.g. Codex)."

      Looks like people moving to the API had a rather small effect.

      "[T]he three most common ChatGPT conversation topics are Practical Guidance, Writing, and Seeking Information, collectively accounting for nearly 78% of all messages. Computer Programming and Relationships and Personal Reflection account for only 4.2% and 1.9% of messages respectively."

      Less than five percent of requests were classified as related to computer programming. Are you really, really sure that like 99% of such requests come from people that are paying for API access?

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