Conversation-to-Delegation Shift

OpenAI's Codex usage study (June 2026): the move from conversational AI ('asking') to agentic AI ('delegated production'), measured by Codex's share of output tokens across three populations — 99.8% OpenAI / 63.3% organizational / 16.5% individual — with adoption spreading beyond developers; standard usage metrics (active users, chats) become less informative as the unit shifts from a conversation to a delegated workflow