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My impression is that software developers are the lions share of people actually paying for AI, but perhaps that's just my bubble world view.




According to OpenAI it's something like 4.2% of the use. But this data is from before Codex added subscription support and I think only covers ChatGPT (back when most people were using ChatGPT for coding work, before agents got good).

https://i.imgur.com/0XG2CKE.jpeg


The execs I've talked to, they are paying for it to answer capex questions, as a sounding board for decision making, and perhaps most importantly, crafting/modifying emails for tone/content. In the bay area particularly a lot of execs are foreign with english as their second language and LLMs can cut email generation time in half.

I'd believe that but I was commenting on who actually pays for it. My guess is that most individuals using AI in their personal lives are using some sort of free tier.

Yes 95% are unpaid



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