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Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products

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296 points mohi-kalantari | 2 comments | 08 Dec 25 16:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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btbuildem ◴[08 Dec 25 18:20 UTC] No.46195736[source]▶
> FirstPageSage AI Chatbot Usage Chart (December 3, 2025)

What a bizarre way to organize the chart. Clearly Anthropic is leading -- their early bet on "programming" as the main use case is paying off.

The recent report from Openrouter [1] confirms as much: coding is the number one use case, with role playing / fantasy writing in second place.

I have a feeling the remaining use cases will never dominate, instead they will slowly mature into acceptable practices across the various industries. That will probably take longer than the investment bubble can hold though.

1: https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai

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1. thinkling ◴[08 Dec 25 18:30 UTC] No.46195866[source]▶
Claude Code usage probably isn't counted as "chatbot" use. Also, I think you're overestimating how many people program vs. how many people are using AI chatbots as the new websearch. Orders of magnitude more of the latter.
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2. HarHarVeryFunny ◴[08 Dec 25 18:41 UTC] No.46196005[source]▶
Sure - US has 1M developers vs 300M pop. At least the Claude Code developers are paying for it though, vs only 5% of users paying for ChatGPT.