# Why Software Developers Are Highly Unrepresentative of Broader AI Use > Source: > Published: 2026-09-02 23:28:56+00:00 ### What Happened *W*ill anyone ultimately use** AI as intensively as software developers** do? That matters because coding is **already a huge share** of AI usage and revenue: roughly **80% of developers use AI coding tools**, and coding may account for **more than half of combined OpenAI and Anthropic ARR**, by some estimates. See the following figure to see AI's developer reliance. And note that it has finance in the wrong place, with the biggest banks, like Goldman and JPM, having more like **15% of employees in software development**, making them even stronger examples than shown. ### What It Means **Coding is unusually expansive.**- A short prompt can trigger planning, code generation, testing, debugging, retries and repeated ingestion of a large codebase. - Token use can explode relative to the size of the initial request.