Reddit debate: Codex has 25M active users — why do some still insist AI is useless?
AkindaGood_programer · reddit · 2026-09-05
A developer pushes back against the 'AI can't do real work' camp, arguing critics are stuck in a 2022 mindset. Evidence cited: Codex has surpassed 25 million active users, AlphaFold earned a Nobel Prize, OpenAI and Mayo Clinic are advancing rare-disease diagnosis, and Anthropic/OpenAI models contribute to serious math research like the Riemann zeta function. The post highlights the widening gap between people actually using frontier models and those judging by outdated impressions.
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