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Even though OpenAI employees have always had unlimited access to internal AI tools, they were still grossly underusing AI right up until late 2025, which sets an important baseline against 'tokenmaxxing' concerns.
AINews frames OpenAI's explosive internal Codex growth as proof that even AI insiders with free, unlimited access were dramatically underusing AI tools until very recently. ✦ AI generated
AI News (editorial) · Latent Space · 2026-06-26 · original ↗
This should form an interesting baseline against Tokenmaxxing concerns - remember that OpenAI employees have had unlimited access at all times anyway, and SOMEHOW they were still grossly underusing AI even up til late 2025.
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- ·OpenAI staff had unlimited internal AI tool access always
- ·Yet usage stayed grossly low until late 2025
- ·Codex saw explosive internal growth only recently
- ·Access alone didn't drive adoption
- ·Even AI insiders underused available tools
- ·Undercuts fears that everyone is over-using AI
- ·Suggests adoption lag, not tool scarcity, was the issue
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