The AI Daily Brief · Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Research from OpenAI, highlighted by A16Z, indicates that non-technical job roles are experiencing the most significant growth in agentic AI usage, particularly with tools like Codex. While engineering roles saw a 5X increase, finance and marketing roles saw 20X and 26X increases respectively, with legal roles seeing a dramatic 108X jump.
“The chart that grabbed mine and many others' attention was this one showing Codex usage growth by enterprise job title.”
“Now, of course, part of this is because they had a lower starting point. But to give some examples, while use among engineering and technical practitioners is up 5X in that time, finance and accounting is up 20X.”
“In marketing and communications, it's 26X, and in people and recruiting, and separately, sales and account management, it's up 41X.”
“And in legal, Codex usage jumps to 108X from where it was back in February.”