OpenAI has pulled back the curtain on how much its researchers spend on AI coding agents.
In a blog post on Sunday, the startup said the most prolific users of AI coding agents among its researchers now consume more than $7,000 worth of tokens — the small chunks of text an AI model reads and produces — a day.
The technology has substantially changed the way OpenAI’s researchers work over the past year, the company said, with staff shipping code faster, performing more experiments, and delegating increasingly high-level tasks to coding agents.
OpenAI said that AI coding agent usage among its researchers has skyrocketed over the past three months…
