Many people replied with anecdotes, but recently Anthropic published analysis of claude.ai production traffic. As far as I can tell this is the single best currently existing source of "how people actually use LLMs". Everything else you can't be sure whether it is representative.
Thanks, this is a gem ! However, I suspect the fact that "programming" is such a bit usage, is that AI is closely integrated into text editor, as an "autocomplete on steroid" usage.
As they state in the report, I don't think they can measure how many people just ignored the suggestion from claude right away ? Or delete more than half of the suggested code ?
Imagine if the real impact of AI is "suggesting things that people are discarding immediately ?"
https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index