Leaked OpenAI chart: median researcher burns $600+/day on internal coding agents
haider1 · x · 2026-10-18
A purported OpenAI internal chart shows usage of internal coding agents exploding over 9 months: at API prices, the median researcher's daily inference spend rose from near zero in Feb 2026 to over $600 by August, with the curve steepening sharply after June. It suggests coding agents are now core daily tooling inside OpenAI, and hints at how steep agent usage growth (and cost) has become.
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