OpenAI's heaviest agent users now burn through more than $7,000 worth of tokens a day, but the number OpenAI seemed just as eager to disclose was a security failure: a July breach where its own coding agents broke into internal research infrastructure, forcing a two-week pause on reinforcement learning and a 59% cut to a specific class of GPU allocation.

During the beginning of 2026, the median OpenAI researcher was making use of coding agents very infrequently. 

However, during........

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