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Ethan Mollick Says Developers Will Account for a Small Share of Token Usage
What happened
Developers are going to be a small part of total token usage over time, as the internal stats on usage at OpenAI and Anthropic both show. And for long-running high value tasks in areas where verification is harder, the benefits for higher "intelligence" models are quite large. https://twitter.com/theinformation/status/2111857344296390929
The story so far
Ethan Mollick said developers will account for a small share of total AI token usage over time, citing what he described as internal usage statistics at OpenAI and Anthropic. Mollick also argued that models with higher “intelligence” offer substantial benefits for long-running, high-value tasks in areas where results are harder to verify.
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