[AINews] OpenAI reports median internal Codex output tokens grew 56x in Research, 32x in Customer Support, 27x in Engineering, and 13x in Legal since November 2025.
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- 1855
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 26 Jun 2026, 9:12 AM
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- 27 Jun 2026, 7:56 PM
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- Latent Space
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- developer-ai
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Summary
- Score
- 7.5
- Created
- 27 Jun 2026, 8:06 PM
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- Audience
- developersvibe_codersai_agent_userssaas_founders
What happened
OpenAI reports that median internal Codex output tokens grew 56x in Research, 32x in Customer Support, 27x in Engineering, and 13x in Legal since November 2025. The growth is steepest in non-engineering teams, suggesting Codex is being adopted for scripting, automation, and document tasks well beyond traditional software development. The data is a self-reported internal benchmark, so it reflects usage volume rather than validated productivity gains.
Why it matters
For Malaysian devs and builders, this is a concrete signal that AI coding agents are no longer just for software engineers — support, legal, and research workflows are now measurable Codex use cases. If you sell to or build for non-technical teams, the 'AI for non-coders' wedge is already being validated by the lab shipping the tool.
Discussion angle
Ask the room: if non-engineering teams (Customer Support at 32x, Legal at 13x) are outpacing Engineering in Codex growth, what does that imply for the next wave of AI tools — are we building for developers, or for 'everyone who occasionally codes'?