Comment by Workaccount2
7 hours ago
OpenAI said that only ~4% of generated tokens are for programming.
ChatGPT is overwhelmingly, unambiguously, a "regular people" product.
7 hours ago
OpenAI said that only ~4% of generated tokens are for programming.
ChatGPT is overwhelmingly, unambiguously, a "regular people" product.
Yes, just look at the stats on OpenRouter. OpenAI has almost totally lost the programming market.
OpenRouter probably doesn't mean much given that you can use the OpenAI API directly with the openai library that people use for OpenRouter too.
I mean, yes, but also because it's not as good as Claude today. Bit of a self fulfilling prophecy and they seem to be measuring the wrong thing.
4% of their tokens or total tokens in the market?
> it's not as good as Claude today
In my experience this is not true anymore. Of course, mine is just one data point.
You're underestimating the amount of general population that's using ChatGPT. Us, people using it for codegen, are extreme minority.
> I mean, yes, but also because it's not as good as Claude today.
I'm not sure, sometimes GPT-5 Codex (or even the regular GPT-5 with Medium/High reasoning) can do things Sonnet 4.5 would mess up (most recently, figuring out why some wrappers around PrimeVue DataTable components wouldn't let the paginator show up and work correctly; alongside other such debugging) and vice versa, sometimes Gemini 2.5 Pro is also pretty okay (especially when it comes to multilingual stuff), there's a lot of randomness/inconsistency/nuance there but most of the SOTA models are generally quite capable. I kinda thought GPT-5 wasn't very good a while ago but then used it a bunch more and my views of it improved.
Their tokens, they released a report a few months ago.
However, I can only imagine that OpenAI outputs the most intentionally produced tokens (i.e. the user intentionally went to the app/website) out of all the labs.