OpenAI says 97.9 percent of its employees are now using agents

OpenAI says that its team members are switching from chatbots to agents as their primary form of AI interaction, a trend the company describes as the steepest internal behavioral shift since the launch of ChatGPT. The 97.9% figure covers nearly every OpenAI employee who has a Cod

The Register's coverage is sober about the methodology — every data point comes from OpenAI itself, with no independent verification — but the internal numbers are striking: non-developer usage of Codex (legal, finance, recruiting, ops) grew 137x year-over-year, and Codex sessions now outnumber ChatGPT sessions inside the company. The piece ties this to a broader question: as the AI labs themselves become the largest internal users of agentic coding tools, every external claim about enterprise adoption is being anchored to labs' own data, and observers are urging more third-party measurement before treating 80% / 97.9% headline figures as benchmarks.